From Napkin to Reality: UNT Career Connect and the Scaling of HIPs

By Michael Simmons, Ph.D., Assistant Vice President, Academic Affairs, Curricular Innovation and Academic Partnerships, University of North Texas System I believe many ideas start on napkins and scrap paper.  Most people have napkins or post-it notes or pieces of...

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...

Notes on Pedagogy

By Fay Yokomizo Akindes, Director, Systemwide Professional & Instructional Development, University of Wisconsin System NASH’s Equity Action Framework is a generative tool for sparking discussions at the system level. It is an especially good follow-up to USC’s...

Collaborative Equity Mindedness: The Benefits of “Systemness”

by Courtney Brecheen, Ph.D., Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education, The University of Texas at Dallas and Louie Rodriguez, J.D., Associate Vice President for Student Affairs, The University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas System consists of...