>> I've only been in higher ed 6 years, and
I really love being on a college campus.
I love the faculty, I love how varied they
are, how interesting they are, and its,
I realized last year that in business, the more
senior you are, the broader your experiences.
So, it's kind of like an upside down triangle.
You may start out as an accountant, but then you
become a people manager, and a project manager
and as you senior management you might be
overseeing finance and marketing, and sales,
and but at [inaudible] it's
the complete opposite.
It's kind of like you start out as an
undergrad, and then you go to grad school,
and then you decide you might want
to get a PhD and study you know,
that South African frog that, you know,
lives in a certain type of creek and,
so these people you interact with daily are
so into their filed, but you can be dealing
with artsy people one day, scientists
another, and they love what they do,
and I love seeing them impact students' lives.
Well, challenges in higher ed, have been
mostly external, state appropiations,
cutting our budgets, having to figure out how
to service students with less funds to do so,
and also challenging is the new millennials,
that population of students coming
and how different they are then other
generations, and trying to figure out how
to mentor these students, so that
they can be the best they can be.
But its, they're very different then
what we're used to in the work place.