Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, speaks with Angela Duckworth, Co-director, Penn Wharton Behavior Change for Good Initiative, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Professor Duckworth talks about the threshold for institutions joining the program, how it supports first-year and transfer students, pitching it to administrators, and using the resulting data. Topics include:

• Which institutions are the best fit for BCGI’s grit-based program
• How the program’s one-size-fits-all approach makes it more effective as a study
• Ease of implementation at the administrative level
• Bottom-line assessment about the value of the data collected

Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, and Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-Founder of Inside Higher Ed, speak with Marie Lynn Miranda, Chancellor of University of Illinois Chicago, on the Innovating Together Podcast. Chancellor Miranda talks about attentive leadership, the central role of values, building community, strategies for handling a crisis, and tracking overall objectives and key goals. Topics include:

• Leading others by learning from them
• An institution’s budget illustrates the institution’s values
• Post-COVID rebuilding takes longer than many people realize
• Crisis management during Hurricane Harvey
  Self-care and self-examination as ongoing elements of leadership
• Recommended reading about accomplishments and objectives

Bridget Burns, CEO of the University Innovation Alliance, and Doug Lederman, Editor and Co-Founder of Inside Higher Ed, speak with Satish Tripathi, President of University at Buffalo, on the Innovating Together Podcast. President Tripathi talks about his unlikely path to leading one of the nation’s top research universities, the core elements of what makes a successful institution, how to develop your personal leadership style, and the importance of learning from context and history. Topics include:

• Acquiring a taste for leadership
• An inflection point for creativity
• Hiring faculty, ensuring student success, and fueling the local economy
• Learning tips for higher education leaders
• How reading informs leadership