Organizational Mutations Leading to Higher Education Evolution

11/09/23 • 42 min

Higher Digital has just published the next episode of its podcast, TRANSFORMED. Every other week we interview experts on higher education, digital transformation, and the challenges and promises represented by both.

In this episode of our special Presidential Series, Len Jessup – President at Claremont Graduate University – while first to ask if he is a “mutation,” shares how he came to his current role while explaining the evolution of the presidential career path, driven by governance boards’ desires for change agent leaders.

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TRANSFORMED - Organizational Mutations Leading to Higher Education Evolution

Transcript

Joe Gottlieb00:00:00.619

You're a former business school professor, flexing the art of the possible in terms of business management at an institution. Again, i.e., For a second time

Len Jessup00:00:10.955

To implement the changes I've been fortunate enough to be involved in in universities over the years, I had to know enough about technology to understand the importance and not to do anything stupid, but man, did I have to know a lot a