Crisis Leadership

August 03, 2020 - These are extraordinary times in academia. In my role as systems thinker, strategy consultant, board member, and professor, I am often asked by university board members: What are the essential questions we should be addressing during these turbulent times? Here …

July 15, 2020 - While university administrators scramble to decrease costs and increase revenues, the forced move to online learning has substantially heightened cyber risk. Higher education already carries more cyber risk than most other sectors. Almost all of their internal systems are online, …

July 13, 2020 - One would assume every college campus in America has a thorough and current response plan for a shooter on campus. And it is likely every campus along the East Coast has a hurricane disaster plan, and California campuses have earthquake …

July 08, 2020 - For many residential colleges and universities around the country the operative question is not whether to open up in the fall but how to open. So the governance question becomes how to open up responsibly. There are a growing number of …

How Can Boards Lead in an Unexpected Crisis Like a Pandemic? The University of Miami has faced unforeseen crises before, such as hurricanes, and has a strong level of preparedness, but not all crises are the same. Trusteeship magazine asked Juilo …

Approximately 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment since the novel coronavirus pandemic began. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate could have been as high as 19.2 percent in April and 16.1 per-cent in May. Historically, …

The moment when I first realized how profound an impact COVID-19 would have on the University of California at Berkeley came in a talk I heard on Saturday, March 7, 2020, by Nicholas Jewell, an emeritus professor of biostatistics. He …

Background In 2019, I published a paper entitled “Defining Resilience”¹  that framed the critical questions engineers must ask when considering resilience among the performance requirements for infrastructure systems such as buildings, bridges, highways, ports and harbors, and so forth. This …

During the spring, higher education was in crisis management mode as COVID-19 spread around the world. First, students on study abroad were called home. Then as the number of cases began to rapidly increase in the United States, colleges made …

“There’s nothing like being an epidemiologist in the middle of a pandemic.” Trusteeship interviewed world-renowned epidemiologist Larry Brilliant about what trustees, college presidents, and other higher education leaders should know about reopening college campuses amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Larry Brilliant, MD, …