Emergent Paradigms in Higher Education in Times of Disruption
Thursday, November 19, 3 PM EST
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Higher education is undergoing a series of seismic shifts as colleges and universities respond to the challenges posed by this tumultuous period of disruption. Rather than returning to the “old” normal, higher educational institutions must respond decisively to the fault-lines of inequality and access that have widened and seize new opportunities if they are to thrive. Academic museums face special financial and operational challenges as they adapt and respond to today’s health crisis, economic crisis, and long overdue reckoning with race. In this webinar, Audrey Williams June, news-data manager for the Chronicle of Higher Education, presents higher education insights and trends, and Steven Mintz, Professor of History and education innovator at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses how we might reimagine higher education post coronavirus and proposes principles to guide this transformation that emphasize equity, outreach, and intra-institutional collaboration.
Join AAMG president, Kristina L. Durocher, AAMG Secretary, Natalie Marsh and fellow AAMG colleagues for this thought-provoking webinar. The 60 minute presentation will be followed by 30 minutes moderated Q&A. Discuss with colleagues how academic museums can adopt strategies to support our parent institutions post-pandemic and contribute to an accessible, innovative, and sustainable future.
About the presenters:
Audrey Williams June is the news-data manager at The Chronicle. She explores and analyzes data sets, databases, and records to uncover higher-education trends, insights, and stories. She has built several areas of expertise since arriving at The Chronicle, in 2001, including the academic job market, faculty pay, and efforts to diversify the faculty. Before coming to The Chronicle, Audrey was a business reporter for The Charlotte Observer, in North Carolina. While there, she wrote about the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and the city’s banking industry. She has also worked for The Telegraph, in Macon, Ga., as an environmental reporter. Audrey earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in economics at Florida A&M University. When she’s not wrangling data, you’ll find her browsing the stacks at her local public library. (Well, I’m not browsing the stacks much now because of the pandemic, but normally that’s the case.)
A pioneer in the application of new technologies to teaching and research and an award-winning teacher and author, Steven Mintz is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. A leading authority on families, childhood, and the life course, he is the prizewinning author and editor of 15 books, and previously served as Senior Advisor to the President of Hunter College for Student Success, spearheaded educational innovation initiatives for the University of Texas System, and directed Columbia University’s teaching center. A regular contributor to Inside Higher Ed, his innovation projects have received more than $15 million in grants from the Gates Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S. Department of Education.
Special thanks to the Kress Foundation for their generous support in this series.
