Leaning Into Your Mission With La Salle President Daniel J. Allen

Summary

• - You’ve worked in Catholic higher education for a bulk of your career and you’re also the product of Catholic education - what was your process for identifying this fit for you, as an administrator and educator?
• - The landscape of higher education has been fraught in recent years - what are institutions like La Salle getting right?
• - When you arrived at La Salle as its new president, how did you embed yourself and familiarize yourself with the language of its already-established mission before starting to put your own spin on it?
• - When it comes to thinking strategically and crafting your long-term vision for the university, how do you balance needing everyone to row in the same direction and being thoughtful about how and when you implement change with also staying nimble in this time of rapid change for higher eduction?
• - Are you saying that higher education isn’t going to be run via TikTok and AI?
• - How do you communicate that openness to new technologies to members of your institution that are more skeptical of change?
• - How do you continuously redefine the value of a La Salle degree– and then communicate that ROI to potential students?
• - You’ve recently hired a new AD - walk me through the process of evaluating and defining what the department needed in its next leader.
• - What are your strategies for establishing alignment, trust and vulnerability with your AD? How have you set the boundaries and expectations appropriately?
• - How can basketball serve as the heartbeat of the institution as well as a recruiting and retention tool? How is basketball part of your vision?
• - One area of interest for you is postsecondary educational access for low-income students. How are you interpreting the recent House settlement in the context of providing access to future student-athletes? Are there models or provisions or policies you’d like to see implemented at the Division I level as we move forward in this new era?