25 leaders in higher education in Greater Cincinnati who are making a difference in the lives of students and taking their respective institutions to the next levels.
Notables: Leaders in Greater Cincinnati higher education
Category: Features
The purpose of higher education: Better citizens or better job prospects?
Movers & Makers asked the leaders of the largest local universities and colleges this fundamental question. The answers offer insight into the state of higher education in our community and provide a glimpse at the institutions’ paths ahead.
Summermusik: the festival where anything is possible
With music director Eckart Preu leading the way, it feels like you’re following Alice through the looking glass. You know there will be surprises, some of them quite extraordinary. But you have no idea exactly what those surprises will be.
Ashish Vaidya flips core education question: Is NKU student-ready?
For decades, we have been asking high school seniors a simple question: “Are you college-ready?” One local college president thinks we are asking the wrong question. To the wrong party.
Polly Campbell: What’s college for?
For my father, it was everything. It can take my breath away to think how close he was to never going to college.
‘Castor and Patience’: second Cincinnati Opera premiere this summer
In “Castor and Patience,” loosely based on the confounding, mythical tale of Castor and Pollux – twin half-brothers of different mothers – the question revolves around the topic of family legacy and inheritance.
Interact for Health CEO Kate Schroder takes on health equity
This ‘relentless optimist’ grew up with ethic of helping people.
Throughout her career in healthcare, Kate Schroder has seen “unacceptable disparities” in health equity at the global level.
Polly Campbell: Donating blood is easy way to share a miracle
Blood is one of the most potent words in the language. We refer to it to talk about family and temperament, about race, about violence and war and disease. But the strongest metaphor is not really a metaphor at all. Blood is life.
Art of the Piano: a festival for the rest of us
Art of the Piano has been in a state of evolution since it began, but not because anything was wrong or needed fixing.
bi3 CEO Jill Miller invests in reducing barriers to care
You can’t have a conversation in Greater Cincinnati about health equity without including bi3, a philanthropic initiative created by Jill Miller, president and CEO of Bethesda Inc., the nonprofit foundation partner of TriHealth, one of the region’s largest health care providers.