Embrace the brand
Anyone searching for a word to wind up academics could give this one a try: brand. “Brand” is the new “customer” for awfulness of metaphor when it comes to explaining the profile and values of a higher education institution. It’s the term—and the attitude to public communication—that has already white-anted our confidence in politics, so why universities are presently gulping the Kool Aid when it comes to brand profiling is beyond me. OK, don’t write in: I know that universities…
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