Freddie Silverman, and Who Drives Change

by Ken O’Donnell, Vice Provost, California State University, Dominguez Hills If you’ve been attending the NASH series on the Big Re-Think over the last few weeks, then you’ve enjoyed some mind-expanding conversations about where public systems of higher...

Complexity

by Ken O’Donnell, Vice Provost, CSU Dominguez Hills Many of us in public higher education have learned the hard way that a message can be powerful and go far, or it can be sophisticated and precise, but not both. This limitation is the bane of system offices. By...

Long Life Learning

by Ken O’Donnell, Vice Provost, California State University, Dominguez Hills Earlier this month the UPCEA held its annual conference, convening leaders in professional, continuing, and distance education. Although attending was a first for me, I learned we’ve...

Informing the Big ReThink

by Ken O’Donnell In an earlier post on this blog, Nancy Zimpher outlined the NASH proposal for a radical reconception of public higher education systems in the United States, called The Big ReThink. She isn’t shy: “NASH will develop a transformation agenda to...

Collective Impact and High-Impact Practices

by Ken O’Donnell An earlier post described the ways Collective Impact – the structured coordination of effort across settings and sectors – applies to organizations, and drew from a conversation I had with Jane Close Conoley, president of California...