Integrative Leadership

Higher education in the United States is all in a heap, navigating a severe crisis, perhaps the most severe in its history. Two obvious reasons for this are the pandemic and the racial tensions, but even these are not the full story. Prior to the emergence of these developments, higher education was already beset with other major challenges, such as declining enrollments, declining funding, and declining affordability. The pandemic has accelerated these crises, meaning that higher education leaders must move with extraordinary rapidity. To call the situation challenging is to powerfully understate it. If there was ever a time to address digital transformation at the institutional level, this is it. And if there was ever a time to consider the necessary leadership for digital transformation, this is it.