Campus Strategies for Effective Communication

Communicating effectively between units and departments, and across the administration/faculty divide, can be challenging on many college and university campuses. There are plenty of cautionary tales, proven strategies and best practices for building campus-wide consensus for strategic planning, program prioritization, tough budgets or innovative new practices.

Ken Steele is Canada’s leading higher education monitor and futurist. After an award-winning career in marketing, he co-founded Academica Group, created the Academica Top Ten, manages Eduvation Inc, co-authored Canada’s first book on enrolment management, and hosts a weekly webcast, Ten with Ken, that reaches thousands of subscribers on a dozen platforms. Ken brings his unique perspective and insight to a broad range of audiences, from faculty and instructors, boards and senior administration, to information technology staff, concerned parents, and Canada’s most powerful corporate CEOs.

Here are some relevant episodes of 10K, for a sense of Ken’s approach and as potential examples to share with participants in advance: