Higher Education for the Justice Involved: How college-in-prison changes lives and communities

Photo by Babita Patel/Hudson Link By Rachel Sander, Prison Education Director, SUNY System Administration and Dan Knox, Assistant Provost for Academic Planning and Student Success, SUNY System Administration College-in-prison programs improve the lives of incarcerated...

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...

Working Toward Equity: Lessons Learned From the Great Shift to Remote Learning

by Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Ph.D., Associate Vice President and Dean, Online and Continuing Education, University of Utah The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare widespread racial and social inequities in many areas, including health care, housing, employment,...

UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS IN THE POST-PANDEMIC WORLD: A VIEW FROM THE BALCONY

by Nancy Zimpher, Senior Fellow at NASH I recall one of the very early conversations among NASH board members at precisely the moment our systems were called to shift to remote instruction, mid-winter 2020.  You’d think all the talk would be about the immediacy of...

Reflections on the NASH Equity Action Framework by Two of the Equity Action Framework Development Team Members

by Rebecca Karoff, University of Texas System, and Dewayne Morgan, University System of Maryland Rebecca:  I’ve been working in university systems my entire professional life (decades, in fact) and these days, my fulcrum for engaging in equity is the newly issued NASH...

TS3 Convening Takeaways

by Maria Khan The Fifth Annual NASH TS3 Convening, took place on November 9, 2020 in a pandemic-style highly-interactive virtual format. The three hours spent by 147 registrants across 14 systems and 11 states, were enriched with discussions on closing equity gaps and...