A new Future Trends Forum program
How can we reimagine higher education to make it most just and equitable? How might we do this work in a holistic, wide-ranging, bold, yet practical way? How can you be involved in this work?
Answering these questions is what The Paradigm Project is about. It’s a multiyear initiative which develops new models of holistic, inclusive, engaged education, supports institutional change-makers, and catalyzes systemic change—beyond piecemeal innovation—across higher education. It’s based on three related ideas: first, that holistic, transformative learning requires transformative change in academic institutions second, that such change depends on integrative, campus-wide collaboration by faculty, staff, and administrative leaders and finally that networked collaboration and collective movement building across higher education hold the key to creating and sustaining the conditions for big change.
Towards that end, the Paradigm Project partnered with the Future Trends Forum to host a series of live video discussions about this work, which we’re calling the Paradigm Conversations. Together we are hosting some of these change-makers, leaders, and visionaries for interactive, online discussions with diverse and thoughtful audiences. Our goal is to bring these leaders and the Paradigm Project into, well, conversations to develop their ideas and continue growing their audience. We would love for you to join us!
Inspiring responses to institutional stressors
June 13, 2024
How can academics best respond to institutional stressors like fiscal and enrollment gaps? Can we do so in positive, ambitious, and even inspiring ways? This week the Future Trends Forum concludes its Paradigm Conversations sequence on a high note, hosting three impressive academic leaders and thinkers: Christine Dehne, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Manhattanville University; Dr. Ellie Clifford Ertle, associate vice provost of undergraduate education and academic success at Chico State University; David Scobey, director of Bringing Theory to Practice and leader of the Paradigm Project.
Integrating career preparation, civic engagement, and the liberal arts
May 30, 2024
How can colleges and university combine academic work, career preparation, and civic engagement for students? In the fourth Paradigm Conversation we are delighted to host three innovators: Laura Baudot, Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of English at Oberlin College; Dr. Ashley Finley, Vice President of Research and Senior Advisor to the President for the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U); Paul Schadewald, Senior Project Manager, the Paradigm Project.
Advancing equitable student success
May 2, 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EDT)
How can higher education improve student success in an equitable way?
This week the Future Trends Forum continues its Paradigm Conversations series by hosting Denise Bartell, senior associate vice president at Kent State, and Mary Beth Love, professor and executive director, the Metro College Success Program of San Francisco State University.
Leading a campus from academia’s margins
April 4, 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EDT)
How can academics from marginalized communities lead colleges and universities?
This week the Future Trends Forum is delight to host Mary Dana Hinton, the thirteenth president of Hollins University and author of the new book Leading from the Margins: College Leadership from Unexpected Places.
The vision of the Paradigm Project
Our first Paradigm Conversation
March 14, 2:00 – 3:00 PM (EDT)
How can we reimagine higher education to make it most just and equitable? How might we do this work in a holistic, wide-ranging, bold, yet practical way? How can you be involved in this work?
Answering these questions is what the Paradigm Project is about. Our guests include: Buffie Longmire-Avital, Professor of Psychology, Faculty Administrative Fellow and Director of the Black Lumen Project; Timothy Eatman, Inaugural Dean and Professor, Rutgers University-Newark; David Scobey, Director, Bringing Theory to Practice.
