Navigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education Mari Sundli Tveit, RectorNorwegian University of Life Sciences

EUA Annual Conference April 3-4 2014, Brussels

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

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From passive to active change management

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

We aim to achieve excellence in higher education today - in a sector undergoing fundamental change

We will need purpose, strong leaders, a GPS system, and fellow hikers…

To survive, we may also have to deal with a «nine-headed troll» on the way

The Higher Education Trolls

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

What is our educational vision?

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

A backward looking, predetermined, narrow and boring wandering in a depleted landscape?

What is our educational vision?

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

Through a varied landscape of lifelong work and learning

As agents of change for a better and more sustainable future?

A case - our university

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

Steps to be more proactive, to re-think, to survive and thrive as a highly relevant and high quality HE institution into the 21st century

• NMBU Learning Philosophy• Student-centered learning

outcomes approach• Signature teaching

Path forward for the institutional level

Norwegian University of Life SciencesNavigating the Changing Landscapes of Higher Education

• Develop a more proactive change management

• Improve NMBUs capacity as a learning organization

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