A new episode of Discovering Your Mission with Dr. Mordecai is now available, featuring a timely and thought-provoking conversation with Jee Hang Lee, one of the nation’s leading voices in higher education governance and advocacy.
Sponsored by The EDU Ledger, the episode explores the rapidly changing landscape facing community colleges and higher education institutions across America. Together, Dr. Brownlee and Jee Hang Lee engage in an honest national conversation on leadership, governance, demographic shifts, workforce alignment, political uncertainty, and the growing pressure for institutions to demonstrate economic value and long term sustainability.
Throughout the discussion, Jee Hang Lee offers a unique national perspective shaped by years of federal policy, public advocacy, and work alongside governing boards and college presidents across the country.
The conversation highlights several critical themes impacting higher education today, including:
• The growing importance of workforce-aligned education and economic mobility outcomes • Why demographic decline should already be shaping institutional strategy • The increasing competition community colleges face across the higher education marketplace • What separates high-performing governing boards from struggling ones • The evolving expectations placed on modern college presidents • The responsibility community colleges carry as both a point of access and opportunity for students nationwide
The episode serves as both a strategic reflection and a call to leadership for current and aspiring presidents, trustees, policymakers, and higher education professionals navigating one of the most consequential periods in the history of community colleges.
Discovering Your Mission with Dr. Mordecai continues to feature influential national leaders whose stories, insights, and experiences challenge audiences to lead with greater purpose, courage, and clarity.
