Deans Counsel
Hosted by Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry and James Ellis and David Ikenberry and Jim Ellis · David Ikenberry / James Ellis / Ken Kring
5.0from 9 ratings
- 98
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 9
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Deans Counsel
Being a Dean in today’s modern university is without a doubt one of the most challenging jobs in higher education. With ever changing tensions and pressures from conflicting constituencies, the job can be both overwhelming yet intensely invigorating at the same time. However, by design, it’s also one of the most lonely jobs in the Academy. Where can one turn for confidential advice? In this podcast we interview Business School Deans peer-to-peer to hear their perspective on a wide variety of pressing issues. Please join your panelists Ken Kring, Senior Client Partner in the Philadelphia office for the search firm Korn Ferry and Co- Managing Director of their Global Education Practice, Jim Ellis, former dean of the Marshal School at the University of Southern California and Dave Ikenberry, former dean of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder for this latest edition of ….. “Deans Counsel.”
- Publisher
- David Ikenberry / James Ellis / Ken Kring
- Category
- business · business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Jan 2023
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 98 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
96: Jeff Brown (Dean Emeritus, Illinois) on Key Issues Facing Higher Education
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
95: Jim Ellis (USC) on His Journey of Insights
4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
94: Rajiv Ranjan (Chandigarh University) on Starting a Business School in India
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96: Jeff Brown (Dean Emeritus, Illinois) on Key Issues Facing Higher Education
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And what happens when the funding model changes? What happens when the public perception of the role of higher education is changing as it is. Do we need to explore different models? Is a four-year degree necessarily the right model? Is a four-year residential degree necessarily the right model? Do we need to think differently about how content is delivered versus how we assess it? Like all these things that we grew up in this profession, believing we're just kind of part of the background, part of the environment. We just optimize within it. Those fundamental things are being challenged, and I think it therefore requires us all to step back and just to think differently about, well, what if? […]
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- Jeff Brown
- Rajiv Ranjan
- Bob Bruner
- Anne-Marie Croteau
- Vickie Antolini
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Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry and James Ellis and David Ikenberry and Jim Ellis host the show. Published by David Ikenberry / James Ellis / Ken Kring.
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