{"id":24182,"date":"2026-01-13T10:51:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24182"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:17:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:17:55","slug":"president-taylor-shares-insights-with-higher-ed-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/01\/13\/president-taylor-shares-insights-with-higher-ed-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"President Taylor shares insights with Higher Ed Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24184\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Donald-Taylor.jpg?resize=150%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Headshot of UDM President Donald Taylor\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>President Donald Taylor recently attended the Council of Independent Colleges\u2019 Presidents Institute, where hundreds of leaders from independent colleges and universities collaborated to address important issues in higher education.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <em>Higher Ed Dive<\/em>, President Taylor shared his insights on the key challenges and opportunities higher education will face in the year ahead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/college-presidents-opportunities-challenges-2026\/809017\/\">See full article here: &#8220;7 college presidents on 2026\u2019s top challenges and opportunities&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following his participation at the Council of Independent Colleges\u2019 Presidents Institute, UDM President Donald B. Taylor shared his insights on the top challenges and opportunities facing higher education in an interview with Higher Ed Dive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,5513],"tags":[7219,175,83,5556],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/01\/Donald-Taylor.jpg?fit=150%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6i2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24286,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions\/24286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}