Examples of My Work
- Should Educational Attainment Be a Free and Open Common Good
This is draft commentary (2 pages). - Is Education's Past Its 2050 Prologue?
My most recently published paper is about educational attainment and justice and thier economic governance (through an Education Leadership Commons). - Adaptive Leadership for the Completions Priority: Establishing an Education Leadership Commons
A Recent Draft Paper on How to Redesign Education. - Education Leadership Commons
This "prospectus" explains the intent to form a nonprofit, non-governmental economic governence organization to enable education reform that serves equally both education providers and thier external investors. - Facing Education's Mounting Challenges with Collaboration and IT
ECAR Research Bulletin published on April 12, 2011. - Education's Priority Challenges
This is my latest attempt to capture the current challenges facing education providers and education's external "investors." - Strategic Thinking about Educational Attainment
I update this document frequently and share it with those interested in thinking strategically and integratively about the grand challenges facing education - and the necessary, but not sufficient, role of digital technologies in meeting those challenges. - Affording and Quality-Assuring Educational Attainment
This is my latest paper. I will update it periodically, and will maintain the latest version here -- date stamped at the bottom of page 1. - Waste Not the Learning Productivity Crisis
This monograph is "organic" -- i.e., edited and updated periodically. It is written from a policy perspective to offer a comprehensive overview of the current "learning productivity" crisis. It goes on to explain why and how resolving the crisis requires the strategic use of technology, and it proposes an Education Assurance Consortium to as part of the solution. - Let's Not Waste a Perfectly Good Learning Productivity Crisis
This draft explains learning productivity, WHY the time is right to use IT to increase it, and HOW to do so. - PRESENTATION
This is my latest presentation related to the themes of this blog. Review it by "playing" it in slideshow mode. After the title slide, navigate from the hotlinked items on the left-side menu column -- the navigational model used by many websites. - Voluntary Counter-Reformation: Stepping Up to the Challenge
The EDUCAUSE Review (July/August 2007) published this amended, abridged form of my white paper on measurable performance improvement. - Measurable Performance Improvement (white paper)
This white paper has been amended and published in abridged form in the 2007 July/August EDUCAUSE Review. - Distance Ed and Institutional Performance
This August 2006 academic computing column for Campus Technology explains why distance ed should be viewed, not as an end in itself, but as a strategy for improving institutional performace. - Winning with Win-Win Sourcing
This February 2006 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology interprets Thomas Friedman's (The Workd Is Flat) flattening forces as new sourcing models that higher education can adopt in the interest of improving institutional performance through IT-enabled service process redesign. - The Object of Content Management
This July 2005 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology is about the role of digital content repositories in improving academic performance. Russ Adkins (Broward CC) and Jeff Larson (SunGard Higher Education) supplied most of the expert content for the column. - Academic Creativity: Its Own Worst Enemy
This June 2005 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology is about the kind of leadership needed to improve higher education's performance systemically. - Assessing Assessment
This January 2005 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology addresses some of the new possibilities for benchmarking learning across institutions. - Order the Change, and Change the Order
This November 2004 Academic Computing Column for Campus Technology is about the role of technology in measurabley improving institutional performance - Improving Institutional Performance through IT-Enabled Innovation
This article appeared in the EDUCAUSE Review issue of November/December 2005. It takes on the goals of this blog head on.
Biography
Dr. William H. Graves is Senior VP, Academic Strategy, at Ellucian. He helps clients develop actionable, IT-enabled strategies for measurably improving upon and accounting for mission performance. He views the postsecondary credentialing marketplace as a “common good” dependent on IT-enabled strategies as leverage for scaling up and sustaining educational justice and attainment, thereby, helping to meet humanity's grand challenges. His numerous publications and presentations foresee a more open credentialing marketplace that is mutually affordable to all stakeholders – students, governments, and institutions.
Before Ellucian, Graves served the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 30 years as math professor, dean, acting academic officer, senior IT officer, and founder of the Institute for Academic Technology, a joint effort with IBM. During those years he served on boards for CAUSE, EDUCAUSE, and the Coalition for Networked Information, and helped launch both Internet2 and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Now he serves on governing or advisory organizations for Antioch University, the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the National Center for Academic Transformation, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, AASCU’s Red Balloon Project, and the International Association of University Presidents.
