Dr. Ryan Goodwin is the Director of the Center for Higher Education Innovation (@ucf_chei) at the University of Central Florida. He was formerly an UIA Fellow, and is now serving as UCF's liaison to the UIA.
Unlikely is a new documentary arriving in theaters this week. The film is an important tool to galvanize momentum, and inspire student success teams to take action. Check out this short interview with Director Jaye Fenderson, and bring your team of administrators, faculty, staff, and students to see it in theaters! For more information and tickets.
Check out this interview with Josh Wyner from the The Aspen Institute where we asked about leadership, overwhelm, the presidency, and running the most effective team meetings!#highered
Dr. Michael Sorrell is the President of Paul Quinn College in Dallas Texas, and a longtime friend of the University Innovation Alliance. In 2018, he was named one of the Worlds Greatest Leaders according to Fortune Magazine.
When we talk about how to make higher education more student centric, we talk a lot about innovation. Innovation, however, isn’t synonymous with technology. In fact, a lot of the improvements we test and adopt across the UIA are simple, low tech changes aimed at simplifying the systems students navigate every day.
Great news! We’ve officially kicked off recruiting for a new national Employer Working Group (EWG) as a part of our college-to-career pathway initiative, Bridging the Gap from Education to Employment (BGEE). Launching this summer, this innovative working group will be comprised of over 25 diverse employers selected through a highly competitive process.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 1, 2019 / PRNewswire/ -- The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) today announced that it has received a $2.4 million grant from Strada Education Network to identify, test, and scale strategies to improve undergraduate career readiness for at-risk students through an unprecedented collaboration among several of the nation's largest research universities.
UIA Executive Director Bridget Burns will serve as a judge for SXSW EDU's eighth annual Launch and Learn by Design competition in Austin this year. Every year, a series of early stage education startups take the stage at SXSW EDU to pitch the work they're doing to industry experts, early adopters, investors, and educators during the eighth annual Launch competition. This year’s finalists include a company that makes an AI-powered companion robot for kids and audio-guided multimodal learning experiences. You can check out the full list of finalists and judges for the event here.
We were thrilled to hear that Paul Quinn College's Michael Sorrell was recently named Higher Ed Dive's President of the Year for such student-centric initiatives such as lowering annual tuition, helping the college become a federally designated work college, and allowing students to work part-time as part of the curriculum. Earlier in 2018, President Sorrell was awarded the inaugural UIA National Award at our first ever National Summit. The speech he gave upon accepting it was was incredibly worthwhile.
An op-ed by UIA Executive Director Bridget Burns was recently featured in the Washington Post. Entitled "College rankings need more focus on graduation rates of low-income students," it highlights the particular challenges college rankings create for college and university leaders and poses a timely solution. Read it here.