Webinar | The Age of Disruption: Reimagining the Work of Faculty and Instructors in an Age of Rapid Change
Higher education has entered a new era: old operating models are failing, but new ones have not yet been built. Financial cliffs, AI disruption, eroding trust and brittle governance structures have produced institutions that excel at symbolic compliance yet struggle to enact real transformation. Strategic plans sit in executive suites, innovation is sequestered at the margins, and faculty remain disconnected from institutional redesign — despite being the core drivers of teaching, learning and scholarly legitimacy.
This webinar calls faculty and instructors to move beyond “innovation theatre” and technological layering toward genuine pedagogical, assessment and governance renewal. The future will not be secured by waiting for leadership to act; it will be shaped by educators who claim agency, experiment courageously and co-design the regenerative university ecosystem now emerging.
Three critical questions this webinar will address:
- If institutional governance cannot redesign itself, how do faculty initiate transformation from within existing structures?
- What concrete changes in teaching, assessment and curriculum design move us from modernization to true innovation?
- How do faculty reclaim professional identity and purpose in an AI-saturated, precarious, platform-driven academic future?
Host:
Stephen Murgatroyd, Research Associate, Contact Nord