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Melik’s Memo: A Historic Commencement
With summer on our doorstep and the 2024–25 academic year coming to a close, I’m reminded why this season holds such meaning.
I took the photo above from the podium before I conferred the baccalaureate degrees at Commencement. It captures a moment I’ll never forget. Looking out at our graduates and their families, I was struck by the joy, the pride, and the sheer scale of what Unity has become. This year, we reached two significant milestones that reflect our mission in action: Unity now serves more than 10,000 students across all programs, and we celebrated our largest graduating class in history with more than 1,000 extraordinary learners now Unity alumni. Sharing that milestone with them was, and continues to be, one of the greatest... Read More »
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The Higher Education Model We Had to Build When the Old One Failed Us…
Higher education is not broken because we lack solutions. It is broken because we protect systems that no longer serve learners. We defend them through governance models designed for delay,... Read More »
Beyond the Triple Bottom Line: A Pentagonal Framework for 21st Century Leadership
When John Elkington coined the term “Triple Bottom Line” in 1994, the world looked vastly different. Climate change was a distant concern for most business leaders, artificial intelligence existed primarily... Read More »
The End of Non-Credit Education: Why It’s Time to Abandon This Broken System
The Bottom Line Up Front: Non-credit education creates a two-tiered system that devalues learning, confuses credentials, and perpetuates inequality. We are solving the wrong problem entirely. Why Non-Credit Education Undermines... Read More »
Artificial Intelligence Doesn’t Break Organizations. Outdated Structures Do.
Why AI Is Not Just a Tool but a Test of Your Structure, Your Talent, and Your Nerve Ten years ago, the organization I lead was on borrowed time. We... Read More »
Why Clarity Is the Only Scalable Advantage in an AI-Driven Enterprise
Every leader eventually faces a moment where growth starts to feel like chaos. You are adding headcount, chasing opportunities, and still somehow falling behind. The problem is not talent. It... Read More »
The CEO’s Cognitive Edge: How I Use OpenAI to Think, Decide, and Lead Differently
This is not about productivity hacks. It’s about how I’ve rebuilt my executive infrastructure, utilizing OpenAI as a daily partner in achieving strategic clarity, pattern recognition, and institutional design. In... Read More »
Higher Education’s Favorite Number to Ignore
If You Don’t Track Cost of Acquisition, You’re Not Leading. You’re Hoping. At this stage in higher education, leadership means knowing what levers move your institution forward. One of the... Read More »
Cognitive Infrastructure Is the New Leadership Frontier…
… How I Expanded My CEO Capacity by approx. 30 Percent With AI and Why It Matters for the Future of Work and the Planet Artificial intelligence is not a... Read More »
I Wasn’t Meant to Lead Their System. I Was Meant to Reimagine It
Higher education believes it is under attack from politics, funding challenges, and demographic shifts. But the most serious threat is internal. The pressure is not just coming from the outside.... Read More »
Building Beyond Accreditation: The Future of Trust in Higher Education
Exploring the edges of what’s next… Full disclosure: I began writing this article well before the recent executive order. It is not a reaction to current events, but rather the... Read More »
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