Academic business systems: A podcast and workout

This is a broader discussion of social sciences methods/lit review construction for everyone, but especially my spring 2021 course.

Dr. Warren introduces qualitative methods by discussing their value and when to choose quant vs qual approaches.

Scott tried to explain some of why our schools are being pushed to open in defiance of all logic.

Dr. Warren/Scott reviews weeks 7-9 with students in lieu of a class meeting for week 7.

Critical theory and Tishomingo

Scott talks about critical theory a bit and mistakes are made.

Scott talks about why shared faculty governance is important in the context of management potentially using emergencies to seize more power during periods of difficult communication.

Scott talks about the concept of foreseeability the best he remembers it from 25 years ago and why decision makers that put people at risk are probably legally liable for harm to students, staff, and faculty.

Class reflection on practical applications of qualitative research

Scott talks about what we can learn from games and sims including AC Odyssey and others including in business settings.

Scott talks about how we might use our research skills to help practitioners with online learning and the importance of being humble about what we think we know.

Scott talks about how teaching and working have changed and why the people in our lives are more important than productivity in a crisis.

Dr. Warren talks to his class about the upcoming weeks and what is e expected as a model for a weekly class podcasts. These are lower bandwidth than videos and can be downloaded at times when students have access to solid internet.

Scott talks about virtual conference planning and how/why/why not people derive value from professional organizations and conferences.

Scott talks about maintaining routine to build out resilient home and work systems to help you through difficult times.

Scott talks about how COVID—19 is likely to affect academics institutions and the systemic components we need to start thinking about going forward.

Creating explanations for the value of what we’re selling in higher education is difficult if we assume they have value. Scott talks about burying that ego and why advertising with strong value messages is important.

Update on minor arguments and Clark-Kozma

Scott thinks about the many potential costs of all the devices in schools.

Scott talks about why we need to calculate valuable returns on LTs the way that business does, why we need to communicate better with faculty, and a little about why learning engineering needs emgineers

We talk about the need to communicate early and often with faculty to prepare courses for the semester and the trade offs of admins demanding more control over course content requires in terms of workload and diminishing other valuable returns.

Scott rambles about the need for long-term planning that leads to the effective start of a school year

Scott talks about how and what to analyze in daily operations for managing programs more effectively and how this benefits the departments and university regarding sustainable student enrollments and retention.

Scott talks about how long it takes to build and revise courses and how little is paid vs. how much the university makes. Plus discrimination of problem and project based learning approaches.

We talk about why to invest instructional engineering people and processes as well as faculty who do most of the work a university sustains itself with every day.

ABS Ep. 7: Scott wanders a campus that adopted one and explains Why lean management models are wrong for higher education, corporate innovation, Texas, and America

Scott talks about 6 common leadership models and how they manifest in higher education plus their trade offs.

After a gym workout, Scott wanders campus talking about estimated building costs, maintenance and personnel costs, and the problems of high debt load for universities.

In this episode, I talk about the primary historic rules of faculty and academic systems, the new large management role for faculty, the trade-offs, and odd reward scheme of today’s universities.

Anchor • Products and services of the university: Considerations and managing your portfolio

This episode covers the 7 ps of marketing as they apply to higher education program development.

Anchor • This is the first two episodes rolled into one: 1.1 Intro to academic business systems • 1.2 The academic system support triad

Audio directions for week 2 with Dr. Warren wiped out by a rogue elementary school virus.