Bridget Burns

It's actually, wow, it would be nice to have some allies, some buddies. And that was a really big part, I think, that I played.

It's actually, wow, it would be nice to have some allies, some buddies. And that was a really big part, I think, that I played.

The prospectus, which was the basically the strategy and what we were going to do and getting 11 college presidents and chancellors in 11 states running institutions over 25,000 students to sign off on a document that was so significant, including a data sharing agreement and.

The prospectus, which was the basically the strategy and what we were going to do and getting 11 college presidents and chancellors in 11 states running institutions over 25,000 students to sign off on a document that was so significant, including a data sharing agreement and.

agreeing to match all the money that is raised was really, it required a lot of trust building because there's no way that any one person can read every single line. But for me, I had to, and I had to come up with this consensus-based document and how this organization was going to operate. And when I first got to, you talked about like the kind of entrepreneurial aspect of it.

agreeing to match all the money that is raised was really, it required a lot of trust building because there's no way that any one person can read every single line. But for me, I had to, and I had to come up with this consensus-based document and how this organization was going to operate. And when I first got to, you talked about like the kind of entrepreneurial aspect of it.

When I first got to ASU and met Michael Crow, he told me I was a bureaucrat and that I was going to need to become an entrepreneur. if I was going to do this, and we were going to have to break out that bureaucrat. And boy, did we.

When I first got to ASU and met Michael Crow, he told me I was a bureaucrat and that I was going to need to become an entrepreneur. if I was going to do this, and we were going to have to break out that bureaucrat. And boy, did we.

I don't think I... I wasn't already... I had some entrepreneurial tendencies prior to this, but it just required a willingness to throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall and figure it out and ask for a lot of help and advice from people. But just sitting with the stories that I had to surface of the campuses and the weaving between of what they had in common...

I don't think I... I wasn't already... I had some entrepreneurial tendencies prior to this, but it just required a willingness to throw a lot of spaghetti at the wall and figure it out and ask for a lot of help and advice from people. But just sitting with the stories that I had to surface of the campuses and the weaving between of what they had in common...

And then also what the sector really needed to see from leaders that would be fundamentally different than everything they'd seen before. Because at the time, higher ed was obsessed with college access, which is just to get more people in. That was the strategy.

And then also what the sector really needed to see from leaders that would be fundamentally different than everything they'd seen before. Because at the time, higher ed was obsessed with college access, which is just to get more people in. That was the strategy.

And the other theme was undermatching from President Obama, which was basically that low-income kids could get into better schools, but they just don't know it.

And the other theme was undermatching from President Obama, which was basically that low-income kids could get into better schools, but they just don't know it.

And both of those things are right and fine for that time, but they are missing the biggest problem, which is that there are literally millions of students who are never going to go to college if the higher ed doesn't change how well it does, how well we serve those students, and that there are millions of people walking around who went to college and the only credential they have is a student loan because they failed out, because the institution was never designed for them to be successful.

And both of those things are right and fine for that time, but they are missing the biggest problem, which is that there are literally millions of students who are never going to go to college if the higher ed doesn't change how well it does, how well we serve those students, and that there are millions of people walking around who went to college and the only credential they have is a student loan because they failed out, because the institution was never designed for them to be successful.

And just like the scale of that and the threat that creates for the future economic competitiveness of this country. And it's just it was like it's a big problem, but nobody sits with it. It's no one's responsibility to fix that. We all need it to be solved.

And just like the scale of that and the threat that creates for the future economic competitiveness of this country. And it's just it was like it's a big problem, but nobody sits with it. It's no one's responsibility to fix that. We all need it to be solved.

But when you have college presidents who are hired to run just one institution and their board holds them accountable to move up and down in the rankings against each other, imagine what that does. It doesn't make them want to work on the same team and fight for a bigger cause than themselves. It makes them want to play defense and hunker down and focus only on their institutions.

But when you have college presidents who are hired to run just one institution and their board holds them accountable to move up and down in the rankings against each other, imagine what that does. It doesn't make them want to work on the same team and fight for a bigger cause than themselves. It makes them want to play defense and hunker down and focus only on their institutions.