In Part 1, I distinguished between strategy, planning, and strategic planning. Not because those distinctions are academic, but because collapsing them into a single exercise often leads to a substantial misinvestment of time and attention. In practice, strategic planning in higher education often p...

If you’re a regular reader of Community Insights, you know I’m not a fan of higher education’s obsession with “strategic planning” as a method for setting direction. If you’re new here, you may want to revisit our discussion on the difference between strategy and strategic planning. The distinction ...

If you work in research administration, you already know the truth: the job has expanded, but the resources have not. 

Research administrators are now expected to:

• Track federal policy shifts across multiple branches of government

• Interpret agency guidance that is often incomplete, incons

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Killing Sacred Cows — Part 3 of a series examining the unspoken norms, taboos, and protected assumptions in academic research that are rarely questioned, even when they undermine effectiveness and resilience. This series names those assumptions, puts them up for debate, and asks whether they still d...