Action: What Practical Steps Can You Take to Reposition the CHRO Function for the Next Era of Higher Education?
- Where is HR already being pulled into “institutional business model” decisions on your campus (enrollment strategy, workforce affordability, student-facing service delivery), and what must you stop doing to make room for that shift?
- What is one cross‑functional co‑creation move you can formalize in the next 90 days (with the provost, president’s office, finance, IT, student-facing units) to increase decision quality and speed under constraint?
- In your context (public vs private, unionized vs non‑union, governance constraints), what are the “non‑negotiables” HR must protect and what’s one area where you can pragmatically adapt to new political/financial realities without losing trust?
- What two measures will you use to prove HR’s strategic contribution over the next cycle (e.g., reduced change noise, improved execution of strategic initiatives, workforce cost resilience, improved manager effectiveness, increased cross‑campus alignment)?