Higher education is at a transformative moment. The Covid-19 pandemic and the advent of AI have been a one-two punch that has forced institutions to reorient quickly to keep serving students. Institutions need leaders who understand both institutional pressures and rapidly changing classroom realities.
Beyond the Credential Factory: Why Higher Education Must Shift from Management to Flourishing
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Yoshitaka Iwasaki
August 3, 2026
