I write this just a week after I attended a very special virtual retirement gathering for a longtime friend and colleague, an award-winning professor of broadcast journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. As we lifted our glasses, I found myself considering the importance of ritual.
How does this historic Covid-19 moment free us to reinvent while letting go of programs, procedures, and strategies that no longer add impact?
Academic and staff administrators surely value the narrative of community. Nothing beats the sense of place we feel when we stroll through a college campus.
Resilience: there is no better classroom than the one in which all of us are learning today — socially distanced, masked, and eager to shape a hopeful future.
You may experience the full spectrum of sensations, from a high of euphoric “what could be” to a low of problems that were not addressed before you arrived.
Center Lane
The Buddha’s notion of the middle way or middle path serves as the inspiration for Center Lane, a series developed during the Covid-19 pandemic to explore how leaders successfully persist through the highest of highs and lowest of lows while creating bold and affirming impact within the communities they serve.
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