You may have been thinking about it for a while. Perhaps others have encouraged you. Or you suddenly find yourself with an offer on the table. Should you make a career move from faculty to administration or from one administrative rung to the next? Here I offer key questions and advice to guide your thinking and actions. After all, once you make the move, you will likely never be able to go back to things just as they were.
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
