Podcasts and Leadership

This 12 minute podcast features an interview with Jean Engle, Chief Knowledge Officer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center. She delivered the opening keynote speech at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Southwest Regional Conference entitled, "Knowledge Sharing: Some Myths and Ideas, and a Little IT".

Ms. Engle joined the Johnson Space Center as a cooperative education student in 1984. She earned a B.A. in Mathematics in 1987, and an M.B.A in 1993 from the University of Houston, Clear Lake. She has served in a variety of increasingly responsible division and directorate staff positions and has been a member of the CIO Office since its inception in 1994. Over the last several years, she has led JSC’s involvement in a number of Agencywide and Centerwide Information Technology standards and security efforts.

In November of 2006, Brian Hawkins, EDUCAUSE President, announced his plans to retire from the presidency of EDUCAUSE at the end of the 2007•2008 academic year. At the 2007 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, he was asked to share the important lessons he has learned in his nearly 40-year career in higher education regarding management, leadership, and professional life. In this 42-minute podcast of that address, entitled "Learning To Drive (and Other Lessons Learned Along the Way)", he discusses issues including personnel management, professional development, and how to map a course for good leadership and a successful career.

 

In this nine minute recording, we'll hear from Pulitzer prize winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Listen in as she shares some poignant thoughts on the leadership that may prove especially relevant to institutions ripe with diversity such as those we find in higher education. She'll also comment on the prospects of Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt as bloggers in the 21st century, digital preservation, and the shares some thoughts on baseball. As an avid Red Sox fan, I'm sure she's thrilled with the outcome of the recent World Series and her comments regarding the momentum of the Red Sox were spot on.

In this 45 minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session, we’ll hear from Sue Workman in a session entitled, ”Using a Dashboard for Business Intelligence.” Workman suggests a Dashboard may help university leaders make snap decisions while taking stock of emerging trends.

 

In this 18 minute recording, Bill Hogue hosts a discussion with Don Padgett about IT metrics, leadership and more. 

The attached 14 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Syracuse CIO, Paul Gandel. Listen in as Gene Spencer hosts a discussion about strategies for talking with the press, data visualization, scholarly communication and much more.

See also:

• Prints And Visual Communication
• Libraries: Standing at the Wrong Platform, Waiting for the Wrong Train?

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear from Valparaiso's CIO, Dennis Trinkle. Listen in as he shares a few thoughts on his 361º Model for Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology, scholarly communication in a digital age, learning space design and cyberliability insurance.

Other podcasts of potential interest include ...

• An interview with KT Tay of Singapore's Republic Polytechnic
• An Interview with Steve Wheatley, VP of ACLS
• An Interview with GMU's Roy Rosenzweig

Dennis was also recently quoted in a recent Chronicle article about cyberliability.

In this 15 minute recording, Gene Spencer hosts Kenyon College President, Georgia Nugent to get her thoughts on the Spellings Report, Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns and much more.

In this 17 minute recording, we'll hear from NACUBO President, John Walda on a range of issues of interest to business officers in higher education. Among other things, topics covered in this interview include the Spellings report, federal policy and other key issues facing academia.

For more information about NACUBO, visit
http://www.nacubo.org/

In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from Stephen Rose, the CIO of the American Council on Education. Listen in as he shares some background on ACE, background on technology issues of interest to University presidents, and learn more about solutionsforourfuture.org