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  time to the next chapter in higher edu- cation, which he intends to help write.
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Flashing back to that aforemen- tioned search for Caprio’s successor, Robinson noted that it was certainly different than anything he’s experi- enced before — and he’s been through a number of these, as we’ll see shortly.
Indeed, this was a search in the era of COVID-19, which meant pretty much everything was done remotely, including the later rounds of inter- views, which usually involve large numbers of people sitting around a table.
“It was all Zoom, and it was ... inter- esting,” he said of the interview pro- cess. “You don’t know if you’re truly connecting or not. As a person being interviewed, you have much more self-awareness of not only what you’re saying but how you’re saying it, and your own non-verbal communication, because you can see yourself on the screen.
“You have to make sure your back- ground is right, the lighting is right, you’re wearing the right colors, all
“Western New England has a good balance of
the liberal arts and the professional schools, along with the law school, that puts it in a unique position to write the next chapter when it comes to what higher education will look like.”
that,” he went on. “It’s like being on TV, literally, because the first impression people get is what they see on screen.”
Those on the search panel were nonetheless obviously impressed, both by what they saw and heard, and also the great depth of experience that Johnson brings to this latest stop in a nearly 40-year career in higher education.
Indeed, Johnson notes, with a dis- cernable amount of pride in his voice, that he has worked at just about every type of higher-education facility.
“I worked in every not-for-profit higher-education sector,” he noted. “Public, private, two-year, four-year, private, Catholic, large, medium, and small — this is my seventh institution. And I think that gives me a unique lens as a leader in higher education.”
Prior to his stint at UMass Dart- mouth, he served as president of Becker College in Worcester from 2010
to 2017, and has also held positions at Oakland University in Michigan and Sinclair College, the University of Day- ton, and Central State University, all in Ohio.
As noted earlier, when Johnson was invited by a recruiter to consider per- haps making WNEU the next line on his résumé, he was at first reluctant to become a candidate.
“The search consultant, who I hap- pen to know, called me two or three times, and I did not bite,” he noted. “But as she told me more, and I learned more about Western New England Uni- versity, I began to take a look. I knew about the school, but I had never taken
Robert Johnson says the future of higher education will likely be what he calls a ‘clicks and mortar’ model.
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