Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed Episode 4 of 7

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This episode reviews two more competencies from the 2025 book: "Leading Existential Change in Higher Ed: Mergers, Closures, and other Major Institutional Restructuring" Authors: Ricardo Azziz, Lloyd A. Jacobs, Bonita C. Jacobs, and Richard Katzman. Podcast 4 Chapter(s): 8, 9 Competency 5: Building change-oriented teams Competency 6: Leading from the front and engaging directly Below are the questions Dr. Azziz addresses during this episode. Competency 5: Building change-oriented teams 1. Case: CU Denver and /Anschutz Health Sciences merged and then kind of unmerged as the Board of Regents ended up naming separate chancellors for both campuses. Is that an indication of how challenging public college mergers can be? 2. Building a team. You have been in the role as president of a college merger. You note in the book that this BSC is primarily the leader’s idea. Step us through how that played out in the Georgia merger you led. Talk about how you put together your team as you merged two colleges in Georgia. What did you learn? What were the biggest challenges? 3. P.

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