Why Some Innovation Districts Flourish and Others Fail
Why do some innovation districts flourish while other fail? In this article with Adam Friedberg, Alice Shay, and Amanda Wirth Lorenzo, we answer this question based on our work and research along with interviews from expert district planners and operators. Together, we identify four ways to ensure a more equitable and sustainable innovation districts where people and places prosper.
Why do some innovation districts flourish while other fail? In this article with Adam Friedberg, Alice Shay, and Amanda Wirth Lorenzo, we answer this question based on our work and research along with interviews from expert district planners and operators. Together, we identify four ways to ensure a more equitable and sustainable innovation districts where people and places prosper.
Aligning Academics and Infrastructure in Higher Education
Elliot had the chance to share his perspective on the gap between the learning and research activities happening on campuses and the spaces that support them with Christopher Buddle from McGill University in a guest column for APPA’s Facilities Manager magazine. We lay out the challenges and propose solutions: creating hybrid academic and facilities planning positions as connectors, establishing a culture of foresight, getting project governance right, and embracing change management.
Elliot had the chance to share his perspective on the gap between the learning and research activities happening on campuses and the spaces that support them with Christopher Buddle from McGill University in a guest column for APPA’s Facilities Manager magazine. We lay out the challenges and propose solutions: creating hybrid academic and facilities planning positions as connectors, establishing a culture of foresight, getting project governance right, and embracing change management.
What Future Workers Expect from Your Company
Companies and colleges in the Twin Cities contemplating the future of work confront big questions. What does the next generation workforce expect? What can employers do to meet these expectations? What can colleges and universities do to best prepare their students for a new world of work? This article explains how understanding the mindset of today's students can help employers set themselves up for success with the next generation.
Companies and colleges in the Twin Cities contemplating the future of work confront big questions. What does the next generation workforce expect? What can employers do to meet these expectations? What can colleges and universities do to best prepare their students for a new world of work? This article explains how understanding the mindset of today's students can help employers set themselves up for success with the next generation.
How Libraries Can Lead the Way in Campus Decarbonization
Academic libraries have long since been campus leaders on so many issues: active learning, open access, student success, diversity and inclusion, and more. Libraries are also not only the symbolic center of the campus but are large facilities often operated around the clock. Libraries have outsized impact academically, socially, and environmentally. It's time to lead the way in campus decarbonization
Academic libraries have long since been campus leaders on so many issues: active learning, open access, student success, diversity and inclusion, and more. Libraries are also not only the symbolic center of the campus but are large facilities often operated around the clock. Libraries have outsized impact academically, socially, and environmentally. It's time to lead the way in campus decarbonization.
How Academia and Industry are Working Together
Universities and industry are working together in the Twin Cities to create remarkable educational experiences and conduct research that solves real problems for real people. In this article for Twin Cities Business’s Entrepreneurship Magazine StartMN, Elliot outlines the benefits of academia/industry collaboration, spotlights projects they are working on, and provides recommendation on how best to work together.
Universities and industry are working together in the Twin Cities to create remarkable educational experiences and conduct research that solves real problems for real people. In this article for Twin Cities Business’s Entrepreneurship Magazine StartMN, Elliot outlines the benefits of academia/industry collaboration, spotlights projects they are working on, and provides recommendation on how best to work together. Download pdf
Tracking the Carbon Footprint of Higher Education Campuses in the Era of Online Learning
Universities are remarkable places that transform peoples’ lives. But neither their financial model nor environmental impact are sustainable. In this article, Elliot and co-author John Katzman provide ways for colleges and universities to increase their enrollment while reducing their costs, facilities, and carbon emissions.
Universities are remarkable places that transform peoples’ lives. But neither their financial model nor environmental impact are sustainable. In this article, Elliot and co-author John Katzman provide ways for colleges and universities to increase their enrollment while reducing their costs, facilities, and carbon emissions.
Quest for Success: 9 Unconventional Ways to Crack the Code & Conquer College Life This Fall
College is a quest for success. This guest post for College Scoops provides students with map they can use along this journey and tips to move along it from How to Get the Most Out of College on everything from picking a dorm and choosing classes to finding mentors and internships to getting involved and building a network.
College is a quest for success. This guest post for College Scoops provides students with map they can use along this journey and tips to move along it from How to Get the Most Out of College on everything from picking a dorm and choosing classes to finding mentors and internships to getting involved and building a network.
9 Ways to Help Students Use Technology to Get the Most Out of College
Today's students enter higher education facing a more complex, expensive, and uncertain environment than ever before. How can higher education technology leaders and their teams help students not only succeed but thrive? Go beyond providing and supporting tools. Create partnerships and offer programs that increase and enhance the use of technology so that students get the most out of college.
Today's students enter higher education facing a more complex, expensive, and uncertain environment than ever before. How can higher education technology leaders and their teams help students not only succeed but thrive? Go beyond providing and supporting tools. Create partnerships and offer programs that increase and enhance the use of technology so that students get the most out of college.
How You’ll Go to College Helps Decide Where to Go to College
We spend a lot of time thinking about where to go to college – and we should given how much is at stake. But how you go to college matters just as much. Decisions college students make about where to live, which classes to take, what projects to work on, and how to get involved all have proven impact on what they get out of college.
We spend a lot of time thinking about where to go to college – and we should given how much is at stake. But how you go to college matters just as much. Decisions college students make about where to live, which classes to take, what projects to work on, and how to get involved all have proven impact on what they get out of college.
Strategic Planning in a Time of Change
College and university leaders are creating strategic plans to respond to changes at their institution and in the wider world. Many will fail. Avoid the common pitfalls: Confusing a plan for a strategy. No true planning team. Ignoring the market. Anodyne language. Deferred decisions. Prescriptive actions.
College and university leaders are creating strategic plans to respond to changes at their institution and in the wider world. Many will fail. Avoid the common pitfalls: Confusing a plan for a strategy. No true planning team. Ignoring the market. Anondyne language. Deferred decisions. Prescriptive actions.
How to Study the Market When You Want to Add a Degree or Certificate Program
Colleges and universities are adapting to changing workforce needs, shifts to online learning, support adult learners, and compete with new credentials and companies. To create new degree or certificate programs, they need to study the market. Understand who your learners are, how many there are, where they are, what they want to learn, and how they want to learn.
Colleges and universities are adapting to changing workforce needs, shifts to online learning, support adult learners, and compete with new credentials and companies. To create new degree or certificate programs, they need to study the market. Understand who your learners are, how many there are, where they are, what they want to learn, and how they want to learn.
Using Evidence to Plan Facilities that Drive Student Success
Colleges and universities are in the midst of shift from an access mindset to a success mindset; from merely admitting a diverse range of students to helping them success with the right supports, people, and processes. Campus facilities can help make this shift and enable student success when planned with the right evidence.
Colleges and universities are in the midst of shift from an access mindset to a success mindset; from merely admitting a diverse range of students to helping them succeed with the right supports, people, and processes. Campus facilities can help make this shift and enable student success when planned with the right evidence.
Service Innovation from Outside In and Inside Out
This chapter from Designing 21st Century Libraries tells the story of the "library next" transformation of Georgia Tech Library's spaces, services, and staffing. The case study covers the extensive and innovative process of stakeholder engagement, needs assessment, shadowing and learning from library "lead users", and library service design.
This chapter from Designing 21st Century Libraries tells the story of the "library next" transformation of Georgia Tech Library's spaces, services, and staffing. The case study covers the extensive and innovative process of stakeholder engagement, needs assessment, shadowing and learning from library "lead users", and library service design.
How to Help Your Students Get the Most Out of College
In a time when students and families are questioning the value of higher education, this article provosts evidence-based advice for colleges and universities to help their students get the most out of college.
In a time when students and families are questioning the value of higher education, this article provosts evidence-based advice for colleges and universities to help their students get the most out of college.
It’s Not Where but How You Go to College
This essay makes the case for shifting our focus from where to go to college to how to go to college so students can get the most out of it. It’s the everyday decisions about where to live, what to major in, what to do a class project on, and where to do an internship that drive success.
This essay makes the case for shifting our focus from where to go to college to how to go to college so students can get the most out of it. It’s the everyday decisions about where to live, what to major in, what to do a class project on, and where to do an internship that drive success.
Guest post on Parenting for College
This guest post summarizes How to Get the Most Out of College, with advice for parents and students on connecting classes, clubs, and career paths and provides examples of advice for specific student identities including first gens, transfers, veterans, student athletes, and more.
This guest post summarizes How to Get the Most Out of College, with advice for parents and students on connecting classes, clubs, and career paths and provides examples of advice for specific student identities including first gens, transfers, veterans, student athletes, and more.
Looking through the COVID Fog Toward Resilient, Reimagined Libraries
Reflection on the lessons from the pandemic on academic libraries to understand which adaptations will remain, what trends will accelerate, and where progress may be on hold. Will libraries continue as hubs that bring together information, collections, technology, services, and spaces to support creativity, create knowledge, build community, inspire concentration, and foster collaboration?
Reflection on the lessons from the pandemic on academic libraries to understand which adaptations will remain, what trends will accelerate, and where progress may be on hold. Will libraries continue as hubs that bring together information, collections, technology, services, and spaces to support creativity, create knowledge, build community, inspire concentration, and foster collaboration?
Times Higher Education: Why miss out on revenue when universities can take more blended learning in-house?
This Op-Ed observes how on-campus and online education are converging in a new hybrid, “phygital” world where classes, events, and advising combine the two -- and how colleges and universities are standardizing and scaling up what they offer and how they build community.
This Op-Ed observes how on-campus and online education are converging in a new hybrid, “phygital” world where classes, events, and advising combine the two -- and how colleges and universities are standardizing and scaling up what they offer and how they build community.
Chronicle of Higher Education: Rethinking Campus Spaces
Contributor to report on how colleges and universities are transforming their spaces as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic to respond to the adoption of online learning and remote work in the face of tighter budgets while recognizing how campuses foster community and connection.
This Op-Ed observes how on-campus and online education are converging in a new hybrid, “phygital” world where classes, events, and advising combine the two -- and how colleges and universities are standardizing and scaling up what they offer and how they build community.
University World News: Debunking six continuing fallacies of higher education
The pandemic has shown that colleges and universities must transform what they offer, how they are organized, and the ways they operate to remake higher education for the better, starting by debunking the fallacies about students, structures, schedules, and spaces that hold us back.
(Co-Authored with Sanjit Sethi, President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design)
The pandemic has shown that colleges and universities must transform what they offer, how they are organized, and the ways they operate to remake higher education for the better, starting by debunking the fallacies about students, structures, schedules, and spaces that hold us back.
(Co-Authored with Sanjit Sethi, President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design)