Innovators
The Innovators podcast, a product of Harris Search Associates, features interesting conversations with global thought leaders in the areas of higher education and research, engineering, technology, and the health sciences and provides our listeners an opportunity to benefit from lessons learned from the national leaders changing the landscape of innovation and discovery.
- Update frequency
- every 20 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 72
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Overseeing Academic Recruitment: An Institutional View (with Dr. Terry Curry, Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources at Michigan State University)
Dr. Terry Curry, Associate Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Human Resources at Michigan State University, joins Innovators to talk about how recruiting talent in academia and higher …
How Does a Lack of Diversity Hurt Institutions? (with Dr. Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion for Columbia University)
Dr. Dennis Mitchell, Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion for Columbia University, joins Innovators to talk about the importance of diversity in institutions of higher education. Dr. Mitc…
Leading the Research Enterprise (with Dr. Sally Rockey, Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research)
Dr. Sally Rockey, who in 2015 became the inaugural Executive Director Executive Director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR), talks to Innovators host Joann Fax about the impor…
Are Universities Training Students to Meet the Needs of Employers? (with Dr. Christopher T. Jones, Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Technology Services)
Dr. Christopher T. Jones, the Corporate Vice President and President of Northrop Grumman Technology Services, joins Innovators to talk about the role that universities play (and should play) in train…
The Chief Diversity Officer and Its Impact in Higher Education (with Dr. Judy Jackson, Chief Diversity Officer at MIT)
Dr. Judy "JJ" Jackson, the Chief Diversity Officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joins Innovators to talk about the state of diversity and inclusion in higher education and the role o…
The Role of the Chair in Search Committees (with Danielle Holley-Walker, Dean of the Howard University School of Law)
Danielle Holley-Walker - the Dean of the Howard University School of Law - joins Joann Fax to talk about how universities can more effectively utilize search committees when looking for educators and…
Strategic Enrollment Management (with Dr. Pelema Morrice, Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at the University of Missouri)
Dr. Pelema Morrice, the Vice Provost for Enrollment Management at the University of Missouri, joins host Joann Fax to talk about how enrollment practices in higher education have evolved to become mo…
STEM Research and Higher Education's Role (with Dr. Emily Miller, Associate Vice President of the Association of American Universities)
Dr. Emily Miller, the associate vice president of the Association of American Universities, joins Innovators to talk about the growth of STEM in schools and higher education's role in expanding and f…
The Evolution and Importance of Research Institutions (with Dr. Stephen Lanier, Vice President for Research at Wayne State University)
Dr. Stephen Lanier, the vice president for research at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, talks to Rick Skinner about the importance of making research institutions cross-disciplinary inste…
Building STEM Capacity (with Patricia Woody Reeves, Founder and President of PWR Consulting)
Patricia Woody Reeves, the founder and president of PWR Consulting, joins Joann Fax to talk about building resources and creating energy around the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mat…
The Role of Leadership in Higher Education (with Dr. Lisa Freeman, Interim President of Northern Illinois University)
Host Joann Fax is joined by Dr. Lisa Freeman, the interim president of Northern Illinois University, to talk about leadership roles for women in higher education and plenty more.
The Research Enterprise in Higher Education (with Dr. Walter Horton)
In the first episode of Innovators, Joann Fax talks with Dr. Walter Horton, the Associate Vice President for Research at Texas State University, and they explore the role and importance of research i…