The Linked Faculty with Writer Elliot Felix

On this episode of ⁠Trending in Schooling⁠, Mike Palmer is joined by Elliot Felix, a returning visitor, to debate his new guide, ⁠The Linked Faculty: Management Methods for Pupil Success⁠. The guide, releasing July twenty second, focuses on how increased schooling can turn out to be extra agile, linked, and break down silos.

Elliot Felix shares his mission of scholar success, drawing on his expertise consulting with over 120 schools and universities to enhance scholar experiences by way of transformations in bodily areas, help companies, and expertise programs. He explains that his new guide goals to offer an evidence-based playbook for increased schooling professionals to collaborate higher for scholar success.

Key Takeaways:

Addressing Disconnections in Increased Ed: Felix identifies 5 key disconnections the guide addresses, together with a scarcity of belonging amongst college students (solely 65% really feel they belong), the disconnect between programs and careers, and the prevalence of siloed buildings inside establishments. He illustrates this with an instance of a college having each a “writing lab” and a “writing heart” performing related features as a result of historic and structural causes.
The Linked Faculty Imaginative and prescient: Felix envisions a future the place schools and universities are higher linked, resulting in college students feeling a stronger connection to their establishment, their coursework linking to careers, and elevated collaboration each internally and with exterior companions like firms and neighborhood teams.
Defining Pupil Success: The dialog delves into the multifaceted definition of scholar success, acknowledging that it may be seen by way of metrics like retention and commencement charges, scholar engagement and belonging, or the person scholar’s perspective of success. Felix suggests widespread floor for scholar success contains college students discovering their neighborhood, their educational and profession path, their place, and a way of function.
Silo Busting Methods: Felix highlights that silos are widespread in organizations, notably in increased schooling, which is designed for sturdiness. He attributes this to a scarcity of clear technique past broad, anodyne statements, and legacy buildings that merely have new features “bolted on” relatively than built-in. Techniques for breaking down silos embody sharing knowledge to create a typical understanding of scholars.
Ahead-Pondering Universities: Examples of modern approaches embody university-industry partnerships driving financial and workforce growth, akin to Carnegie Mellon’s robotics innovation heart and Rowan College’s enlargement into well being and wellness and superior manufacturing. Different examples embody Imperial Faculty London’s enterprise lab, the College of South Florida’s concentrate on entrepreneurship, and Arizona State’s “Work Plus Study” program.

Don’t miss Elliot’s new guide, ⁠The Linked Faculty: Management Methods for Pupil Success⁠⁠, obtainable July twenty second wherever you get your books.⁠

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