July 2026
Beginner to intermediate
240 pages
4h 55m
English
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About the Author
Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc is a visiting scholar and special advisor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. He is also president emeritus of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Under the 21 years of Paul's direction, SNHU grew from 2,800 students to over 250,000 and is now the largest nonprofit provider of online higher education in the country.
Paul is considered one of America's most innovative educators. Forbes Magazine has listed him as one of its 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and Washington Monthly named him one of America's 10 most innovative university presidents. In 2018, Paul won the prestigious IAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education, joining some of the most respected university and college presidents in American higher education. In 2024, the University of Pennsylvania awarded him the Zemsky Medal for Innovation in Higher Education. He has also received the Ernest L. Boyer Award (NACU), the Distinguished Alumnus Award (AASCU), and the Ray Schroeder Leadership Award (UPCEA).
He is the author of Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education (2021), winner of the 2022 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature, and Broken: How Our Social Systems Are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them (2022). His wife, Pat, is an attorney, as is his daughter Emma. His other daughter, Hannah, is a high school history teacher and mother to his grandson, Simon, to whom this book is dedicated.
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