Be careful what you wish for-at least when you’re a college president who blogs. Lew Collens, president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, started a blog on 20 Februaryand he’s gotten a lot of unsigned complaints from students about IIT. There’s an article in the Chicago Tribune-it will require a free login. The blog is a way for Collens to collect feedback about a strategic plan for IIT.
It turns out that I was mistaken in saying that Michael Crow from Arizona State University was the first university president to blog [my comments here]. That honor apparently belongs to Lou Anna Kimsey Simon, president of Michigan State University, who launched her blog in January of 2005. Her comments range from news about new ways of communicating about MSU to curriculum and other campus issues. You might be interested in Tim Goral’s comments on blogging by university presidents in University Business.
Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?