WEBVTT

00:00:05.872 --> 00:00:07.107
>> WELCOME TO THIS SPECIAL

00:00:07.173 --> 00:00:08.441
EDITION OF INSIDE INDIANA

00:00:08.508 --> 00:00:12.045
BUSINESS, AS WE FEATURE

00:00:12.112 --> 00:00:12.612
INFLUENTIAL INDIANA WOMEN.

00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:15.215
I'M IBJ EDITOR, LESLEY

00:00:15.281 --> 00:00:15.515
WEIDENBENER.

00:00:15.582 --> 00:00:16.116
>> IT'S TIME NOW FOR OUR I ON

00:00:16.182 --> 00:00:19.119
EDUCATION.

00:00:19.185 --> 00:00:19.753
DR. LORI WHITE MADE HISTORY TWO

00:00:19.819 --> 00:00:20.353
YEARS AGO WHEN SHE BECAME THE

00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:21.187
FIRST WOMAN AND PERSON OF

00:00:21.254 --> 00:00:22.489
COLOR TO BE NAMED PRESIDENT OF

00:00:22.555 --> 00:00:25.959
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY.

00:00:26.025 --> 00:00:27.460
HER AH-HA MOMENT CAME WHEN SHE

00:00:27.527 --> 00:00:28.228
VISITED MEHARRY HALL WHERE SHE

00:00:28.294 --> 00:00:33.333
CHECKED OUT PORTRAITS OF PAST

00:00:33.400 --> 00:00:33.967
PRESIDENTS AND IT HIT HER: SHE

00:00:34.033 --> 00:00:34.601
NEEDED TO STEP FORWARD AND

00:00:34.667 --> 00:00:37.804
CHANGE THE IMAGE PEOPLE HAVE OF

00:00:37.871 --> 00:00:39.038
LEADERS IN HIGHER EDUCATION.

00:00:39.105 --> 00:00:40.173
AND DR. LORI WHITE HAS DONE JUST

00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:41.374
THAT.

00:00:41.441 --> 00:00:43.510
FOR MORE ON THE CHALLENGES,

00:00:43.576 --> 00:00:44.911
SHE'S FACED DURING THE PANDEMIC

00:00:44.978 --> 00:00:46.246
AND WHAT HER VISION IS FOR

00:00:46.312 --> 00:00:50.450
DEPAUW, WE ARE JOINED BY DR.

00:00:50.517 --> 00:00:53.420
LORI WHITE.

00:00:53.486 --> 00:00:54.454
DR. WHITE, THANKS FOR JOINING

00:00:54.521 --> 00:00:54.621
US.

00:00:54.687 --> 00:00:57.590
>> SO HAPPY TO BE HERE, LESLEY.

00:00:57.657 --> 00:00:59.092
>> YOU CAME TO DEPAUW AT THE

00:00:59.159 --> 00:01:00.927
START OF THE PANDEMIC, SO YOU

00:01:00.994 --> 00:01:02.929
AND MAYBE HALF OF YOUR STUDENTS

00:01:02.996 --> 00:01:04.697
HAVE ONLY KNOWN THE SCHOOL IN

00:01:04.764 --> 00:01:05.131
THAT LIGHT.

00:01:05.198 --> 00:01:06.266
I READ THAT YOU SAID THE

00:01:06.332 --> 00:01:08.168
PANDEMIC, THOUGH, HAS REINFORCED

00:01:08.234 --> 00:01:10.804
THE VALUE OF A LIBERAL ARTS

00:01:10.870 --> 00:01:11.137
EDUCATION.

00:01:11.204 --> 00:01:12.972
CAN YOU ELABORATE ON WHY THAT

00:01:13.039 --> 00:01:13.139
IS?

00:01:13.206 --> 00:01:15.542
>> I WOULD BE HAPPY TO.

00:01:15.608 --> 00:01:18.311
I'VE BEEN NOTHING OTHER THAN A

00:01:18.378 --> 00:01:20.814
PANDEMIC PRESIDENT.

00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:22.449
AND I VERY MUCH BELIEVE THE

00:01:22.515 --> 00:01:24.350
SHINING STAR OF THE PANDEMIC WAS

00:01:24.417 --> 00:01:27.520
TO REINFORCE THE VALUE OF THE

00:01:27.587 --> 00:01:30.323
EDUCATION THAT DEPAUW PROVIDES.

00:01:30.390 --> 00:01:31.891
WE'RE 100% RESIDENTIAL

00:01:31.958 --> 00:01:33.259
UNIVERSITY, AND WHAT STUDENTS

00:01:33.326 --> 00:01:36.830
TOLD US THEY MISSED MOST WAS THE

00:01:36.896 --> 00:01:39.065
OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY HERE ON

00:01:39.132 --> 00:01:41.835
CAMPUS WITH OUR FABULOUS

00:01:41.901 --> 00:01:43.603
PROFESSORS AND BE IN COMMUNITY

00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:44.537
WITH THEIR CLASSMATES.

00:01:44.604 --> 00:01:46.272
AND WHEN YOU ALSO THINK ABOUT

00:01:46.339 --> 00:01:48.908
ALL OF THE TOOLS THAT WE HAD TO

00:01:48.975 --> 00:01:51.044
USE TO RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC,

00:01:51.110 --> 00:01:53.112
THAT'S WHAT A LIBERAL ARTS

00:01:53.179 --> 00:01:55.582
EDUCATION IS ALL ABOUT.

00:01:55.648 --> 00:01:57.584
PROVIDING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY

00:01:57.650 --> 00:01:59.619
LENS TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE

00:01:59.686 --> 00:02:01.287
SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS AND

00:02:01.354 --> 00:02:01.855
CHALLENGES.

00:02:01.921 --> 00:02:03.957
>> DO YOU THINK THE PANDEMIC

00:02:04.023 --> 00:02:05.258
WILL HAVE SOME LONG-TERM EFFECTS

00:02:05.325 --> 00:02:08.561
ON HOW YOU DO THINGS, OR HOW

00:02:08.628 --> 00:02:11.364
UNIVERSITIES IN GENERAL DO

00:02:11.431 --> 00:02:13.166
THINGS GOING FORWARD?

00:02:13.233 --> 00:02:14.868
>> I HOPE THAT IT DOES.

00:02:14.934 --> 00:02:17.036
AS THEY SAY, NEVER WASTE A GOOD

00:02:17.103 --> 00:02:17.303
CHALLENGE.

00:02:17.370 --> 00:02:20.073
SO A COUPLE OF THINGS WE LEARNED

00:02:20.139 --> 00:02:22.308
FROM THE PANDEMIC IS HIGHER

00:02:22.375 --> 00:02:24.577
EDUCATION HAS A REPUTATION OF

00:02:24.644 --> 00:02:26.446
BEING VERY SLOW TO CHANGE.

00:02:26.513 --> 00:02:28.781
AND WE WERE ABLE TO ADJUST QUITE

00:02:28.848 --> 00:02:31.784
QUICKLY TO MOVING ALL OF OUR

00:02:31.851 --> 00:02:33.319
CLASSES ONLINE IN RECORD TIME.

00:02:33.386 --> 00:02:36.289
AND WHILE DEPAUW WILL NEVER BE A

00:02:36.356 --> 00:02:38.358
FULLY ONLINE INSTITUTION, WE

00:02:38.424 --> 00:02:39.492
CERTAINLY HAVE LEARNED THAT WE

00:02:39.559 --> 00:02:42.629
CAN DELIVER ASPECTS OF THE

00:02:42.695 --> 00:02:44.464
STUDENT EXPERIENCE USING VIRTUAL

00:02:44.531 --> 00:02:44.831
TOOLS.

00:02:44.898 --> 00:02:46.499
SO THAT'S CERTAINLY ONE LESSON

00:02:46.566 --> 00:02:47.667
THAT WE LEARNED.

00:02:47.734 --> 00:02:48.768
>> I THINK THESE CHANGES ARE

00:02:48.835 --> 00:02:49.802
GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT

00:02:49.869 --> 00:02:50.169
MOVING FORWARD.

00:02:50.236 --> 00:02:52.305
I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT

00:02:52.372 --> 00:02:54.440
THERE IS AN ENROLLMENT CLIFF

00:02:54.507 --> 00:02:55.642
COMING THAT UNIVERSITIES HAVE

00:02:55.708 --> 00:02:57.977
BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND WORRYING

00:02:58.044 --> 00:02:59.112
ABOUT BASICALLY A POPULATION

00:02:59.178 --> 00:03:00.880
SHIFT WITH FEWER HIGH SCHOOL

00:03:00.947 --> 00:03:02.081
STUDENTS GRADUATING AND GOING TO

00:03:02.148 --> 00:03:02.448
COLLEGE.

00:03:02.515 --> 00:03:04.284
THERE ARE SOME WHO THINK THAT'S

00:03:04.350 --> 00:03:05.518
GOING TO BE ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT

00:03:05.585 --> 00:03:06.920
FOR PRIVATE SMALLER SCHOOLS.

00:03:06.986 --> 00:03:09.322
BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE MAYBE YOU ARE

00:03:09.389 --> 00:03:10.290
FINDING THAT THE PANDEMIC HAS

00:03:10.356 --> 00:03:11.958
CHANGED THE WAY YOU MIGHT BE

00:03:12.025 --> 00:03:15.828
ABLE TO REACT TO THE ENROLLMENT

00:03:15.895 --> 00:03:16.195
CLIFF.

00:03:16.262 --> 00:03:17.931
>> WELL, CERTAINLY ALL OF US ARE

00:03:17.997 --> 00:03:19.766
CONSCIOUS OF THE ENROLLMENT

00:03:19.832 --> 00:03:19.999
CLIFF.

00:03:20.066 --> 00:03:22.168
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US

00:03:22.235 --> 00:03:25.572
TO REINFORCE THE VALUE OF A

00:03:25.638 --> 00:03:27.574
LIBERAL ARTS RESIDENTIAL

00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:28.007
EDUCATION.

00:03:28.074 --> 00:03:30.376
AND AT THE SAME TIME I THINK WE

00:03:30.443 --> 00:03:32.912
HAVE TO BE UNAFRAID OF -- AS

00:03:32.979 --> 00:03:35.648
LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES TO EXPLORE

00:03:35.715 --> 00:03:37.784
AREAS OF STUDY THAT PERHAPS

00:03:37.850 --> 00:03:39.185
TRADITIONALLY WE WOULD NOT HAVE

00:03:39.252 --> 00:03:41.854
OFFERED AT LIBERAL ARTS

00:03:41.921 --> 00:03:42.121
COLLEGES.

00:03:42.188 --> 00:03:44.190
FIELD FOR EXAMPLE LIKE BUSINESS

00:03:44.257 --> 00:03:45.858
EDUCATION, AND OTHERS THAT WOULD

00:03:45.925 --> 00:03:48.861
NOT BE TYPICALLY OFFERED AT A

00:03:48.928 --> 00:03:50.630
RESIDENTIAL LIBERAL ARTS

00:03:50.697 --> 00:03:52.832
COLLEGE.

00:03:52.899 --> 00:03:54.867
>> DO YOU THINK THAT -- ARE

00:03:54.934 --> 00:03:56.836
ALREADY SEEING SOME OF THOSE

00:03:56.903 --> 00:03:58.137
CHANGES FROM THE ENROLLMENT

00:03:58.204 --> 00:04:00.139
CLIFF AND ARE YOU ALREADY HAVING

00:04:00.206 --> 00:04:02.942
TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS?

00:04:03.009 --> 00:04:04.844
>> WELL, CERTAINLY WE NEED TO BE

00:04:04.911 --> 00:04:06.379
EVER CONSCIOUS OF THE

00:04:06.446 --> 00:04:08.915
CHALLENGES, AND WE ALSO HAVE TO

00:04:08.982 --> 00:04:11.851
THINK ABOUT HOW DID WE MOST MAKE

00:04:11.918 --> 00:04:13.519
OUR EDUCATION RELEVANT TO THE

00:04:13.586 --> 00:04:16.255
STUDENTS OF TODAY, AND THE

00:04:16.322 --> 00:04:18.458
STUDENTS OF TOMORROW TO PREPARE

00:04:18.524 --> 00:04:21.160
THEM TO LEAD IN A RAPIDLY

00:04:21.227 --> 00:04:22.929
CHANGING AND EVOLVING WORLD.

00:04:22.996 --> 00:04:25.732
AND I THINK THOSE INSTITUTIONS

00:04:25.798 --> 00:04:27.000
THAT ARE FOCUSED ON FUTURE

00:04:27.066 --> 00:04:30.269
FOCUSED WILL BE THE ONES THAT

00:04:30.336 --> 00:04:33.039
WILL SURVIVE MOST IN THIS VERY

00:04:33.106 --> 00:04:33.640
COMPETITIVE HIGHER EDUCATION

00:04:33.706 --> 00:04:33.973
ENVIRONMENT.

00:04:34.040 --> 00:04:35.675
>> WE HAVE JUST A FEW SECONDS.

00:04:35.742 --> 00:04:38.277
BUT I REALLY WANTED TO SEE IF

00:04:38.344 --> 00:04:40.046
YOU COULD REFLECT ON THAT MOMENT

00:04:40.113 --> 00:04:41.614
WHEN YOU REALIZED YOU WANTED TO

00:04:41.681 --> 00:04:45.051
COME TO DEPAUW AND REALLY CHANGE

00:04:45.118 --> 00:04:47.120
THE LOOK OF A HIGHER EDUCATION

00:04:47.186 --> 00:04:47.353
LEADER.

00:04:47.420 --> 00:04:49.956
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

00:04:50.023 --> 00:04:50.456
THAT?

00:04:50.523 --> 00:04:52.859
>> I'VE SPOKEN OFTEN ABOUT THE

00:04:52.925 --> 00:04:56.229
CALL THAT I HEARD IN HISTORIC

00:04:56.295 --> 00:04:57.463
MEHARRY HALL ON THE DEPAUW

00:04:57.530 --> 00:04:59.766
CAMPUS, WHICH IS WHERE ALL OF

00:04:59.832 --> 00:05:02.468
THE PORTRAITS OF DEPAUW'S

00:05:02.535 --> 00:05:03.703
PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS HANG.

00:05:03.770 --> 00:05:04.671
I'M PRESIDENT NUMBER 21.

00:05:04.737 --> 00:05:07.206
AND AS I LOOKED AT PRESIDENTS

00:05:07.273 --> 00:05:09.475
ONE THROUGH 20, AND REALIZED

00:05:09.542 --> 00:05:13.179
NONE LOOKED LIKE ME, I REALIZED

00:05:13.246 --> 00:05:16.582
THAT IN ORDER FOR THE UNIVERSE

00:05:16.649 --> 00:05:18.217
TO SEE LEADERSHIP AS PERHAPS

00:05:18.284 --> 00:05:20.653
DIFFERENT THAN WHAT HAD BEEN

00:05:20.720 --> 00:05:21.754
HISTORICALLY THE CASE, FOR

00:05:21.821 --> 00:05:23.823
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS, I NEEDED TO

00:05:23.890 --> 00:05:26.492
SAY YES WHEN THE OFFER CAME.

00:05:26.559 --> 00:05:29.162
AND ONLY 80% OF COLLEGE

00:05:29.228 --> 00:05:31.898
PRESIDENTS DON'T LOOK LIKE ME.

00:05:31.964 --> 00:05:32.899
I'M AFRICAN-AMERICAN, I AM

00:05:32.965 --> 00:05:35.301
FEMALE, AND I WANT ALL OF OUR

00:05:35.368 --> 00:05:37.303
STUDENTS TO KNOW WHAT IS

00:05:37.370 --> 00:05:38.137
POSSIBLE.

00:05:38.204 --> 00:05:39.205
>> WELL, DR. WHITE, THANK YOU SO