Planning for Higher Education Journal
Breaking Barriers
A Collaborative Approach to Problem-Solving Created a Culture of Campus Innovation
From Volume 49 Number 2 | January–March 2021
The University of West Georgia, toward dismantling silo thinking and promoting a sense of ownership within the workplace, formed a cross-divisional group: The Barriers Team. It was part of an initiative to recognize and encourage employee engagement, develop operational efficiencies and effectiveness, and eliminate obstructions to staff success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Essentially There
Higher Education Returns to Serve
From Volume 49 Number 1 | October–December 2020
There is a call for higher education institutions to think of ways that knowledge can be created and shared between people—
credentialed and noncredentialed—more readily so that society can better handle adversities.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Book Review: How University Budgets Work
From Volume 49 Number 1 | October–December 2020
This book serves as a primer for establishing a baseline by which academic leaders can participate in conversations regarding finances at their institutions.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Academic Deans Reveal Their Leadership Styles
Annual Budgeting Becomes an Exercise in How Authority is Enacted
From Volume 48 Number 4 | July–September 2020
Academic deans adopt one of three approaches when developing the annual budget report for their colleges: distributed authorship, delegated authorship, or dominated authorship. Depending on the approach they select, deans can include and collaborate with their senior teams—or exclude, ignore, and alienate them. Their choice demonstrates how they lead.