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Scott Carlson interviewed three SCUP-47 presenters and served up podcasts with them on The Chronicle's website:

The first is a conversation with Sanford Shugart, the president of Valencia College in Florida. Mr. Shugart is giving the opening talk at SCUP this year, which will address changing the culture in higher education, and how that stands as the major challenge for the industry. Four cultures have been prominent in higher education history: the monastic culture, the culture of the German institute, the industrial culture, and the "retail culture," where students are "customers" at the higher education "spa." He's not sure what culture is emerging now.

"Maybe it's a convenience culture," he says. "Maybe it's a digital, open-source culture.... It's in the nature of culture that you cannot see it emerge. You only see it in the rear-view mirror." 13:07

The second conversation is with Robert Brodnick, an associate vice president at the University of the Pacific. He proposes bringing something new to institutional planning: design thinking, an approach that blends analytical thinking with creative thinking. It's a process that is not currently widely used in institutional planning, he says. "Given what is happening politically, economically, and in terms of technology, I think people need to think differently about how we plan for the future." 8:38

 

The third conversation—with Ira Fink, a well-known college planner—focuses on "the time value of campus space." Higher education tends to apply a one-size-fits-all pricing model to its spaces, while other entities—like travel companies, for instance—change the cost of their airline flights or hotel rooms, depending on whether you want to use them at times of peak demand. Should higher education do the same? 10:31

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This video is from 2–3 years ago, ahead of the very real timeliness of this issue. Sandy Shugart is president of Valencia College (formerly Valencia Community College, which name change he refers to in this presentation) and is the Sunday evening plenary speaker at SCUP–47 in Chicago, July 7–11, 2012; higher education's premier planning event. In this video he asks and addresses the question, “Can Our Institutions Accommodate to People Who Don't Believe In Them.” 

Shugart is an accomplished poet and musical artist, as well as the man who recently accepted on Valencia’s behalf, the designation of the Top Community College in the United States. If you just want the talk, skip ahead to about 30 minutes. But you’ll be missing a really good singing performance, with commentary. We very much hope that he brings his guitar to Chicago for SCUP–47.