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Articles by Nancy L. Zimpher
Trusteeship: November/December 2023
Table of Contents Features Governing and Hiring for Systemness Revenue, Resources, Planning, and Collaboration By Jason E. Lane and Nancy L. Zimpher The future of higher education lies in greater collaboration and coordination.
Governing and Hiring for Systemness
A critical component of any board is the hiring and firing of the chief executive officer. For system boards, this often means hiring the system and campus executives. If those leaders share an understanding of their complementary roles and the power of systemness, the transformative efforts can be powerful. However, the results can be devastating if those in these roles fight over decision-making authority and institutional autonomy.
New plan for SUNY doesn't break from systemness
Nancy Zimpher is chancellor emerita of the State University of New York system and the director of The Power of Systems, a national effort by the National Association of System Heads to rethink higher education. Jason Lane is former vice provost for the SUNY System.
Reimagining the new post-pandemic roles university systems can play (opinion)
I recall one of the very early conversations among board members at the National Association of System Heads (NASH), where I serve as a senior fellow, at the moment our systems were called to shift to remote instruction in midwinter 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Big college sports programs face a financial apocalypse if the football season is cancelled -- it's time for new priorities focused on the athletes
While millions of fans are lamenting the looming disappearance of college sports this fall, the coronavirus pandemic is also exposing financial fault lines and a broken governance model that may trigger an opportunity to irrevocably transform big-dollar college athletic programs.
Commentary: New York must take steps to prepare students for future
Too few students are enrolled in the kind of courses that will set students up for success in college and the workforce, and too many of New York's middle and high schools don't even offer some of these courses. The outlook is particularly bleak for black and Latino students.
Cuomo’s bold college aid program
For too many Americans, the rising costs of college are putting higher education out of reach. This comes at a time when a postsecondary degree is almost mandatory for earning a middle-class living. In New York alone, 70% of jobs require a college degree, but only about 46% of adult New Yorkers have one. We must close that gap. Last week, Gov. Cuomo made history when he signed into law a first-in-the-nation policy to cover tuition at all public colleges and universities in the state.
SUNY tuition hike is not automatic
In his budget, Governor Cuomo extended a very important program to State University of New York, NYSUNY 2020. This legislation is crucial to the university, and I want to be sure we do our best job explaining NYSUNY 2020, and how and why it works. There are two core purposes of this critical legislation.
In My Opinion: Pell Grants need to be more flexible for today's students - Press-Republican: Opinion
We are committed to devising new strategies and tools that broaden college access and push graduation levels to new heights. In New York alone, current projections are that by 2025, the workforce needs of the state will require 1 million more college graduates than we are currently producing. This, in the face of mounting student-loan debt and rising college costs that are narrowing access to higher education.
Essay praises new Obama administration College Scorecard
While the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard website may be a scaled-back version of what President Obama first announced on the State University of New York’s own Buffalo campus in 2013, it will be a useful tool for providing the information students and their families need to make decisions about college costs and return on investment.
SUNY Makes History In Cuba
SUNY Makes History In Cuba I’ve been in education for a long time. I have had the opportunity to travel the world forging partnerships, networking with colleagues in other nations, and working to both spread and learn best practices among peers.
Opting Out of Our Future
When it comes to whether students should opt out of standardized testing, no one is actually talking about what’s best for our kids. Standardized tests have become a pawn in political debates about teacher evaluations and we have lost sight of what they are: a way to measure what students know so we can help them improve. For too long, our education system has failed to track students’ progress toward college and career readiness.
Essay calls for more rigor in teacher education programs @insidehighered
Teachers make a tremendous difference, both in the lives of our children and the competitiveness and success of our country. That’s why it’s so essential to get more effective teachers into U.S. classrooms. Every thoughtful strategy for this moral and economic imperative ultimately comes back to colleges and universities doing a better job of preparing teacher candidates. Contrary to movies and folklore, successful teachers are not born. They are trained and taught.
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