{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"From Triage to Transformation: A Conversation with Elaine Maimon","description":"Elaine Maimon has been an executive leader at three public universities, including Governors State University, south of Chicago, where she served as president from 2007 until 2020.  She\u2019s a forceful advocate for the educational needs of \u201cnew majority\u201d students: working adults, veterans, students from low-income backgrounds and communities of color.  But unlike some other thought-leaders, she insists that these students\u2014like all undergraduates\u2014need and deserve an education that integrates the arts and humanities, civic engagement, and meaningful preparation for work.  At Governors State, Maimon led a series of curricular and institutional changes that modeled this vision, even as the university faced the Great Recession, a budget-cutting debacle in the Illinois higher-ed system, and the Covid-19 pandemic.   In this conversation, we talk about the needs of new-majority students, the imperative of melding liberal and career-oriented learning, and how to move \u201cfrom triage to transformation,\u201d as Maimon puts it, in the face of crisis.   Elaine Maimon\u2019s book, Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation, offers a rich account of her experience and values as an academic change-maker.  Her recent essay, \u201cHigher Ed Will Never Be the Same Again,\u201d touches on many of the themes of our conversation.   The Way Forward is a production of Bringing Theory to Practice; to learn more about our work, visit us at www.bttop.org.  Send us your thoughts\u2014and suggestions for future episodes\u2014at info@btop.org.  The podcast is produced by Jabari Butler, and Dan Rudin composed our music. ","author_name":"The Way Forward: Higher Education In a Time of Crisis","author_url":"http:\/\/bttop.libsyn.com\/website","html":"