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Challenge: The Completions Priority "The completions marketplace should be redesigned to improve overall scalability, measurable impact, mutual affordability, and sustainability. To do so while avoiding intrusive government regulation and retaining local autonomy will require voluntarily confirmed "rules of the road" that enable effective completions practices at autonomous micro levels to be rolled up collectively into mutually affordable common-good macro solutions." Solution: Economic Governance for the Completions Marketplace - a common good critical to economic and social progress "The wisdom of a crowd willing to inform and support adaptive change leadership might help create common ground in a nonprofit, non-governmental global Education Leadership Commons (ELC) formed for the purpose of developing and evolving open interoperability of common educational services, processes, and accountability metrics, all at a minimally intrusive, trusted level of economic governance. Modeled along the lines of the Internet Society's so-far successful governance mechanisms, the ELC could be operationalized through standing working groups, their advisory or governance committees, and other nested and loosely-coupled, efforts to advance and sustain educational attainment within and across the three dimensions of the completions marketplace." - Completions Productivity Task Force - Economic Governance Council chart on page 6: Governance Matrix of Rights and Responsibilities in the Completions Marketplace student, assessment provider, education provider, government (other other funding source) 8 possible outcomes, including accreditation's formative peer-review process is retained "to create "trust-but-verify" economic governance collaborations" "If government can't provide the leadership and funding stability required for victory, then we the people should do so through a social networking micro-contribution mechanism, not unlike the micro-loan infrastructure cr

by Eliza Anyangwe, - she opens with an image of Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium: "Martin Lurther King was a great leader. Are there any such figures in higher education?" what she doesn't address is that King relied on local "bridge" leaders to do the everyday work - and that the role of community activists was crucial to King's own success. She starts the live chat with Janine Utell and English prof from Widener Univ in PA (my personal fav expert on leadership qualities is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin); but then gathers leadership-in-the-trenches voices from men: Craig Mahoney (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/); William H Graves (http://www.ellucian.com); Richard Hall (http://www.dmu.ac.uk); Paul Gentle (http://www.lfhe.ac.uk); Jonathan Ruddle (http://www.maxximconsulting.com); and finally, a woman's voice - last and least - Dawn Freshwater (http://www.leeds.ac.uk)

addressing humans' "essential conservativism" in the face of radical change - and lessons she learned from studying Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War