Title:
RESILIENCY: A NECESSARY SKILL FOR GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION LEADERS DURING COVID-19

Authors:
Robert E. Waller ,Pamela A. Lemoine ,Thomas J. McCormack ,Christopher J. Garretson and Michael D. Richardson* ,USA

Abstract:
The modern world is changing rapidly in many unanticipated ways. Stability has given way to innovation, creativity, and diversity in contemporary society. Progressively frenzied environments, including COVID-19, mandate global higher education leaders become more resilient. Resilience is an underlying and complex variable that enables global higher education leaders to better face challenges. Sustaining the past model of higher education in changing environments, mandates and challenges has become untenable. In today’s higher education world leaders look for ways to manage in an imbalanced environment where the focus is on leading for resilience, where the future is unpredictable, capacity is uncertain and unknown, and learning is an issue of social and economic security.