The State of American Higher Education: Before and During COVID-19 (with Dr. Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California)

Innovators

Dr. Adrianna Kezar, Director of the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California, joins Innovators to examine the state of higher education when viewed against harsh criticism, external factors, and the facts around enrollment, faculty, and the changing workforce. Dr. Kezar and Innovators host Rick Skinner also talk about an aging faculty, tenure-track professors, and how to make space for the new wave of university professors.

Dr. Kezar is also the Dean’s Professor of Leadership and a Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education at USC and directs the Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success there. She is a highly sought after expert on the matter of the changing faculty in higher education. She earned her PhD in Higher Education Administration at the University of Michigan.

Innovators is a podcast production of Harris Search Associates. The show is produced by Grant Burkhardt.

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