You’ve almost certainly heard people who say that their job is mostly “putting out fires all day.” Unless you’re a firefighter (the kind that puts out literal fires), a police officer, or an Emergency Room Physician, it’s not optimal to always be focusing on the “tyranny of the urgent.” But knowing it’s becoming the way […]
I mentioned to someone the other day that I was continuing to see a lot of VP EM jobs coming into my email. The tone and the timbre of these emails is changing: It’s still an “exciting time” to join College X, and the president and trustees are still “fully committed” to the enrollment function […]
Perhaps you’ve seen the story of what might be the largest wave ever surfed (the news media are calling it the largest wave ever, but of course that’s not true.) It got me thinking about all the waves we’re dealing with in higher education: Shrinking enrollments, structural budget deficits at even some of the highly-resourced […]
Enrollment VP 