At this summer’s Mackinac Roundtable on Talent, I joined higher education leaders who are working through one of the defining questions facing colleges and universities today: how do institutions prove their value without allowing someone else to define it for them?...

I’m leaving the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit energized by the conversations and perspectives shared across the higher education community. More than that, I’m leaving with a clearer sense that higher education is entering a new phase, one defined less by exploration and more by execution. ...