Graduate Management Education (GME) News Digest - Making Graduate Program Management Simpler

Your graduate program probably has a mission statement. Here's the problem: it almost certainly belongs to someone else. Most graduate program mission statements are one of two things: • The university's institutional mission with a discipline-specific phrase inserted. • Something so broadly worded it could apply to any program at any institution in the country. Neither of those is a purpose state...

The Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable just released a study of 69 graduate business schools examining whether institutions have the organizational systems to detect external change and translate it into sustained curriculum adaptation. One finding stood out: roughly a third of schools have the operational capability to adapt — but don't consistently activate it. The researchers call this "La...

If your graduate program feels like it's stuck on a "recruitment treadmill," exhausting itself every cycle just to maintain the status quo, it may be time for a structural shift. Transitioning from survival to flourishing requires us to stop viewing the intake process as a one-time transaction and instead design it as a long-term partnership. This newsletter serves not just as a publication, but a...

A new report, the CHLOE 10 Report, was just released, and its findings are a wake-up call for our higher education institutions. The report, which is a collaboration between Quality Matters, Eduventures, and EDUCAUSE, tracks 10 years of online learning growth and reveals a boom in short-term credentials and uneven progress on AI across higher education. The top-line finding is impossible to ignore...

I applaud the University of Rochester for their forward thinking, planning, and action. Navigating the chaos being created by the current administration is not going to be easy. However, I think working together as a united campus and community will make it a survivable situation.  I hope this episode of the GME News Digest podcast offers valuable insights into the adaptive strategies of one of ou...

Welcome to the GME News Digest podcast series—your source for insights, strategies, and inspiration in graduate program management. Whether you're an experienced program leader, part of an administrative team, or a dedicated academic faculty member, this is the space where I explore pressing challenges in GME and uncover actionable solutions. I'm Rodney Alsup, and in today's episode, we'll tackle...

Welcome back to the GME News Digest Podcast Series. Hi, I'm Rodney Alsup, your host for this episode, "Embracing Skills-Based Hiring in Graduate Programs."  Ashley Mowreader's insightful Inside Higher Ed article inspired this episode. Her title, "What Skills-Based Hiring Means for Higher Ed" caught my attention, so I thought I would explore its significance for the graduate education community. He...

Who is your graduate program designed to serve? Or can you describe your program's target audience? Would your answers be the same or different for each question? Should they be the same or different? Or could they be the same or different? How would the major role players that support your graduate program respond to these questions? The question "Who is your graduate program designed to serve?"...

The effectiveness of a graduate program depends on the understanding of individual learner journeys by program leaders and faculty, as well as the understanding of the program's learner journey by individual learners. I explored these understandings from two distinct perspectives of the learner journey in my two previous episodes.  One perspective was that of the learner , and the  other was that...

Once learners realize a learning need, they usually start a journey to address it. Many times, the journey starts out as self-directed and, at some point, it transitions to a guided journey. When a graduate degree program is involved, much of the self-directed journey planning starts with a web browser and an internet search. And during any stage of their search, learners may evaluate multiple jou...

Have you ever thought about the path learners navigate when they go from realizing their need to learn to be a loyal program supporter? When both learners and program leaders really understand the path learners follow, it's like having a roadmap to success for both. A roadmap with interesting goals like identifying knowledge gaps, choosing a program, enrolling, and becoming a committed supporter....

Our conversation focused on: • How the coming baby drought will affect the future of business education? • How generational behavior will affect the future of business education? • How changes in the behavior of the middle classes will affect the future of business education? • How gender shifts will affect the future of business education? • How urbanization will affect the future of business edu...

Wharton Professor Mauro Guillén, recently named dean of Cambridge University's Judge Business School, and author of 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything joined me to discuss how B-School deans and graduate program leaders can prepare their programs for 2030 and beyond.

Dr. Bora Ozkan, assistant professor of finance at Temple University's Fox School of Business serves as the academic director for the school's Online MBA and Online BBA.   The reason Bora is joining me today is he's responsible for the Fox School's first-ever Virtual Reality or VR course that's offered to their online MBA students. The course, "Fintech, Blockchain and Digital Disruption," is a seve...

Making graduate program management simple is almost never a consideration during the design phase of a new graduate program. Georgia State University's new MS in Human Resource Management program is an exception . In this episode, two program faculty members discuss how the new program's design makes program management simple. Join me as we discuss how the program uses rubrics to track overall ski...

During 2019 graduate management education was criticized for not being relevant. At the end of January, I received a press release from GSU titled "Georgia State's Master's in H.R. Management Responds to Emerging Business Needs." I thought, here's a response to that criticism, I wonder how they did it? Two GSU faculty are here today to help us understand the how.

During this podcast you will learn: • How to scope and evaluate industry projects to align with learning outcomes • How to identify mis-matched expectations and facilitate re-alignment • 5 Practical Lessons from 5+ years' experience facilitating industry-engaged experiential learning to 5000+ students My guest for this webinar is Nikki James, VP of Learning & Experience, Practera, a company whose...