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John Ikenberry HigherEdJobs.com Podcast

Thursday, 26 March 2009

The Recession's Dark Shadow Covers Higher Education

John Ikenberry

Welcome to an Inside Recruiting Channel podcast on Total Picture Radio. This is Peter Clayton Reporting. HigherEdJobs.com was founded in 1996 to list open positions at colleges and universities. Today, HigherEdJobs.com has one of the largest job databases focused exclusively on college and university positions. Joining us is the president and co-founder of HigherEdJobs.com, John Ikenberry.

"For higher education in the USA, adversity is going to be the stimulus to careful review of mission. I have always thought that a university budget is one of the most philosophical of documents -- for it tends to cut through polemics and oratory to give a glimpse, albeit blurred, of a college's or university's genuine priorities. Today it means colleges and universities are going to have to step away from the temptation of the past five or six years in which they have enjoyed an abundance of student applications, deceptively and transient high returns in endowments, and reasonable funding from state governments and/or foundations. More and more thoughtful private fund raising will be one obvious response -- as will careful review of what is essential and what is marginal in its various offerings and activities. Allow me to preface my comments by declaring my perspective. Some professors see campus administration as expendable and unimportant. I don't share that view." - Dr. John Thelin, Professor of Education, University of Kentucky, from an interview with Andrew Hibel, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of HigherEdJobs.com.

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Talking Points

In reading your biography, it seems HigherEdJobs was born out of necessity.
How is the recession impacting the job market in higher education?
Is anyone out there in your world hiring?
Is this an equal opportunity recession? Meaning both state run and private colleges and universities are feeling the same pain.
Many of us are struggling to send our kids to college -- and it seems scholarships and tuition assistance has evaporated. Has there been a decrease in enrollment at colleges and universities?
Do you know of any initiatives underway to financially assist students?
Alumni associations have always played an important role in fund raising. Do you know how the recession has affected donations?
In higher education, can any parallels be drawn between what’s going on today and the recessions of the 70’s or 80’s?
There have been many press reports surrounding the very controversial decision made by Brandeis University to sell its very extensive and valuable art collection and close its art museum. Do you know of any other institutions taking such draconian measures? How has this announcement being viewed by college and university administrators?
What are the projections for the balance of this year and into 2010 regarding higher ed employment?
Any bright spots?

John Ikenberry Biography

John Ikenberry is President and Co-Founder of HigherEdJobs.com, an Internet job posting service for colleges and universities, and a member of the CUPA-HR Corporate Advisory Council. Prior to starting HigherEdJobs.com, Ikenberry worked for six years as a development officer for The Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and history from Northwestern University, and his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in higher education from Penn State.

Ikenberry and his co-founders, Andrew Hibel and Eric Blessner, started HigherEdJobs.com in 1996 in response to their own frustration of trying to find a job in higher education. Today, HigherEdJobs.com is an industry leader in higher education recruitment, listing over 67,000 jobs last year from more than 2,900 colleges and universities. Each month, HigherEdJobs.com is visited by over 1.7 million faculty and staff.”