Books
Joseph King and Brian C. Mitchell, Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). Published January 4, 2022.
Brian C. Mitchell and W. Joseph King, How to Run a College: A Practical Guide for Trustees, Faculty, Administrators, and Policymakers. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). An Amazon best seller.
In their new book, Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education, W. Joseph King and Brian C. Mitchell build on their decades of higher education experience to argue that colleges must modernize and monetize their practices and assets and link explicitly to the world beyond the college gates...[MORE]
Newsroom
Forbes: Higher Education Needs A Clearer Message: How Institutions Can Adapt
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell, recently published an article in Forbes detailing how institutions...
Forbes: What Higher Education Leaders Can Learn From The FAFSA Rollout
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell, recently published an article in Forbes which explores the...
Professors’ lazy thinking not the answer for problems plaguing Ohio universities
A recent article in The Columbus Dispatch cited Leadership Matters, the lastest book authored by...
In Higher Education, Teach-Outs and Growing Academic Programs Can Be Two Sides of the Same Coin
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell, recently published an article in RealClear Education which describes...
Forbes: Higher Education Faces Hurdles In 2024
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell, recently published an article in Forbes which describes the...
Who Failed Whom at Harvard?
A recent article in Inside Higher Ed quoted Academic Innovators President and Managing Principal, Brian...
Adapting to Today’s Challenges Facing Higher Education Leaders
Academic Innovators President and Managing Principal Brian Mitchell was recently featured as a guest on...
Forbes: How Higher Education Institutions In America Can Adapt To Today’s Challenges
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell, recently published an article in Forbes about steps institutions...
Forbes: The Road To Better Governance In American Higher Education
Managing Principal and President, Brian Mitchell published an article in Forbes on better governance in...
Webinar – Reflections from Dean Gloria Culver: Nine years in the life of a dean
Academic Innovators Principal and President, Brian Mitchell participated in a conversation with two other noted...
Forbes Names “Leadership Matters” one of the Top 10 Books in Higher Education
Academic Innovators is delighted to announce Leadership Matters: Confronting the Hard Choices Facing Higher Education...
VMI to Honor Controversial Former Leader
Academic Innovators Principal Brian Mitchell was recently quoted in an article featured on Inside Higher...
Student Health Care: Can Higher Education Do Better?
An appeal to Leadership to Take a Closer Look By Rick Gaumer, Principal – Academic...
The Need to Lead
One definition of a college president is that he or she lives in a big...
Piedmont Is in for Some Very Tough Times
Inside Higher Ed, Liam Knox Piedmont University provost Daniel Silber resigned abruptly this week to...
How Strategic Leadership Can Change the Face of Higher Education – with Richard Gaumer, Dr. W. Joseph King, and Brian C. Mitchell
Student Housing Matters, Alton Irwin Listen to the podcast episode here. Higher education has...
Making Leadership Matter
Inside Higher Ed, Susan H. Greenberg and Emma Whitford The authors of a new book on leading...
Presidents Behaving Badly
Inside Higher Ed, Emma Whitford Mark Rosenberg’s resignation from Florida International is the second high-profile...
The Future Trends Forum [Video]
Youtube, Bryan Alexander Watch the full Youtube video “On Strategic Leadership” here. What does strategic...
Choosing a College President in Times of Crisis
LinkedIn, Brian C. Mitchell American higher education is facing an extraordinarily difficult academic year...
Getting Down to Business in Difficult Days
Inside Higher Ed, Brian C. Mitchell and Richard K. Gaumer Colleges must immediately develop flexible financial planning...
Coronavirus Closures Pose Refund Quandary
Inside Higher Ed, Emma Whitford For colleges that are already financially strapped, issuing room and...
Capital projects: 5 ways to pay – How colleges and universities are financing campus construction
University Business, Karen Kroll State-of-the-art research facilities, residence halls featuring a range of amenities, and...
Our College Sports System is Broken. Do We Have the Guts to Fix It?
Boston Globe, Neil Swidey From big-money Division I football and basketball to the privileged niche...
Rural Colleges’ Lenders of Last Resort
A U.S. Department of Agriculture program has provided $1.7 billion in grants and low-cost loans to...
Boston is the Nation’s College Capital. Here’s How to Keep It That Way
Boston Globe Magazine, Brian C. Mitchell and W. Joseph King Boston’s economy has thrived because...
What College Presidents Think of Future of Higher Education
Inside Higher Education just released its annual “Survey of College and University Presidents.” The results...
Enrollment & Student Affairs Must Align for College Net Revenue to Grow
American colleges and universities are reaching for every means through which they might increase net...
Colleges Must Change Financial Model to Avoid Death by a Thousand Cuts
American higher education is a complex, decentralized, and interlocking network of institutions that provide education...
America’s Colleges and Universities Have a Serious Revenue Problem
The Hechinger Report, Brian C. Mitchell Trimming costs or enrolling more students can’t cure what...
Think Humanities Grads Can’t Find Meaningful Work? Check the Facts.
Despite the resourcefulness and creativity that characterizes American higher education, the failure of many colleges...
Will Higher Education Heed Bond Rating Agency Warnings?
By Brian Mitchell Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s recently released their updated outlooks for American...
Can U.S. Higher Education Disrupt Itself Before It’s Too Late?
I’ve been thinking a great deal lately about how disruption will play out in American...
Oberlin’s Financial Crisis: Sobering Lessons For Higher Education
Last month, Rick Seltzer reported in Inside Higher Education about a brewing controversy at Oberlin...
Adult Students’ Return Provides Opportunity For Colleges
In a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled “Baby Boomers Looking for Reinvention Try College...
How a Seemingly Basic Technology is Driving the University of the Future
eCampusNews, Rick Gaumer Investment in Wi-Fi -enabled technologies has university reaping significant results in recruitment...
#DareToGoDigital
Business Officer, Rick Gaumer Fearful of tackling the technology challenge? See how the CBO of...
The New Rules of Engagement: It’s time for boards of trustees to look at the way they govern themselves
The many levels of hierarchy in higher education are a kaleidoscope of power struggles and...
Finding (and Keeping) the Right College President
The current practice of identifying, nurturing and providing for succession planning for college and university...
The Other Side to Technology in Higher Education
With the concentration lately on educational delivery, we seem to be missing important innovations that...
Growing a College: Why Parents Matter
As we slowly come to the end of the great economic recession, now is probably...
Choosing the Battleground for the Liberal Arts
I had to come to terms with who I was and learn to think for...
The Transfer Student: The New Hot Commodity
A few of the more thoughtful institutions are beginning to discover that transfer students can...
Building a Senior Staff: The Burden of Support
Presidents must have the courage to lead. Boards must have the confidence to let them...
Intentional Enrollment
Beyond the student athletes and legacies, senior officials and their boards must first ask: What...
What Our Master Planning Says About Us
If great educational institutions are built through the perception created by the intersection of people...
Time to Step Back: The Future of Penn State
The future of an iconic American institution as an educational enterprise is hanging in the...
Colleges as Good Neighbors: Why Towns Matter
The best strategic thinkers in higher education recognize that perception matters. They shape and control...
