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...

Institutional Readiness

by Dr. Nichole S. Prescott, featuring Dr. Ashley Purgason In late May I wrote an article for the NASH TS3 blog enumerating what I saw to be the most pressing issues and critical impact of COVID on higher education and our students. I shared data on the effect of COVID...

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...

Applying Universal Design Thinking to Opportunity Gap Closure

by Ryan Barone, Colorado State University With roots in psychology and disability studies, Universal Design (UD) has been rarely applied to the work of student success at scale.  Amanda Kraus defines UD as “the design of products and environments to be useable by all...