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VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6 NOV.DEC.2023
10 Governing and Hiring for Systemness
Revenue, Resources, Planning, and Collaboration
By Jason E. Lane and Nancy L. Zimpher
Th e future of higher education lies in greater collaboration and coordination.
Th e authors explore the role of governing boards in overseeing higher education
systems, the mindsets needed to adopt systemness as an operational standard,
and how boards can use hiring and other strategies to leverage the collective
assets of a system to support students and the state.
COVER: ILLUSTRATION BY GORDON STUDER
FEATURES
26 Fostering Change
in Higher Education
Institutions Need Room to
Experiment-and Fail-
in Order to Succeed
By Bridget Burns
Hiding institutional failures, the ones that
others could learn from, is deeply embedded
in the fabric of most American colleges and
universities. Trustees can fuel innovation if
they help their institutions get comfortable
with short-term failure and understand that
failure is the greatest teacher.
20 Transforming
Des Moines University
A Case Study in Integral Leadership
By Angela L. Walker Franklin
Founded in 1898 as the nation's second
college of osteopathic medicine, Des
Moines University is again in a pioneering
position as it fulfi lls a bold plan to deliver
a new campus. Th is endeavor tells of a
visionary and disciplined board of trustees
that, in the words of former chair Larry
Baker, " could not have been possible under
our old ways. "
34 Higher Education
as a Strategic Asset
An Emerging National
Call to Action
By David V. Rosowsky
Earlier this year, a coalition of national
leaders convened the Council on Higher
Education as a Strategic Asset (HESA) to
begin work on a report to national leaders
focused on strategies for higher education
to " drive global competitiveness, keep our
nation secure, sustain our democracy, and
propel economic and social prosperity " -
bold goals at a challenging time for higher
education and our nation.
DEPARTMENTS
AND COLUMNS
3 On My Agenda
Rethinking Our Needs for a New Era
By Mary Papazian
4 News in Brief
A Sampling of Higher Education News
8 Inside AGB
9 Legal Standpoint
Existential Crisis
A Play With Three Acts
By Lee Tyner
42 Foundations of Consequence
Th e First 100 Days
How to Succeed as a New Foundation CEO
By Laura Wilcox
46 Forum
A Gaggle of Gags
By Kevin P. Reilly
47 Focus on the Presidency
Communicate. Communicate.
Communicate.
By Anne M. Kress
48 A Question for
The Rev. Dennis Holtschneider
For Catholic Colleges,
Strategy Is Everything
By Carol Schuler
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