What I Worry About

In this time of great challenges for higher education, the thing that worries me is:

Overconfident college and university leaders who

• do nothing, or
• do wrong things that result in bad outcomes for people (e.g. students, staff, faculty, etc.),

due to

• guessing at the causes of problems,
• using conventional problem-solving methods (budget cuts), and
• succumb to confirmation bias (i.e. everyone else is doing it)

because

• they do not know what else to do, and
• do not look for better things that they can do,

thus

• ceding control of policy and
• resulting in new but ineffective practices.

That is not leadership.