Higher education is experiencing a rapidly changing and challenging environment. To succeed in better enabling necessary institutional and marketplace changes as well as creating maximum student learning opportunities, today’s academic leaders must look beyond old paradigms of success in higher education. Today’s academic leader must truly understand and act upon the wisdom of “It takes a village to raise a child” and educate a modern-day, more diverse, technologically driven, and mediated-existence-driven student.
Beyond Programs: Leadership Lessons from Ireland’s Inclusive Universities
During a recent sabbatical studying inclusive postsecondary education in Ireland, I visited four universities—University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and Mary Immaculate
Ashley Rodrigues
July 20, 2026
