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FACULTY ACADEMY KEYNOTE ADDRESS
“TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF TRUST”
- KAREN STEPHENSON, NETFORM, INC.
Look within your own universities and tell me how many examples you can cite where university faculty couldn’t build a bridge over the continental divide of disciplinary or cultural differences? Is this war of words and war of worlds the legacy we leave behind, or do we face the brutal truth and begin the process of transforming our institutions to be more flexible, adapt performance policies, and review and renew our approach to faculty and staff employees? Transformation requires trust. Trust illuminates a new path, enabling people to change and move beyond cynicism and betrayal. The institutional role of leading teaching and learning requires that we, as educators, not just teach trust, but practice it.
