Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned - Introductory Episode

Show Notes:

President Scott L Wyatt and Steve Meredith kick off the 2020-21 season by introducing this year’s podcast theme: Innovation in Higher Education: Lessons Learned. They preview some of the topics to be discussed, like the partnership between SUU and Southwest Technical College and SUU’s Three Year Degree program.

We don’t give salary increases for people that are creative, we don’t give a bonus to anybody like that. But as you move up the ladder and get to the top, so you’re at the point where you can be the most creative and influence change the most, it seems like in the public sector, that you also tend to irritate more people. And, as we say in politics, “Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.”
Scott L Wyatt

. . . disruptions always lead an organization or a person into being better or worse at the end of the disruption. So, that’s…and the approach that we’ve tried to take as a university is we are going to be better at the end of this pandemic.”
Soctt L Wyatt