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It’s been an upside-down sort of week. I spent the first part of it in the sweltering heat of Savannah at D2L Fusion, and the day after I got home was a holiday in Utah. Officially, it’s Pioneer Day, though it’s more commonly known here as Pie and Beer Day (I had neither). But what did I read?
Let it not be said that I never give you strategic advice in these posts!
Endemic denial
Yesterday, Phil covered the IHE survey of Chief Business Officers (CBOs), which showed that CBOs largely believed everyone else had problems while they were doing just fine. I found a similar sense of denial in a recent report from Acuity, based on a survey of admissions professionals from the US, UK, Australia, and Canada.
It’s a small survey, about 160 respondents, so its representativeness is debatable. Still, some of the responses struck me as quite odd. The first was in response to a question about what kinds of innovative recruitment strategies institutions planned to use.
More perplexing were responses to a question about how they were going to communicate value.
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