Broken, Paul LeBlanc
Broken, Paul LeBlanc
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Broken
How Our Social Systems are Failing Us and How We Can Fix Them

Author: Paul LeBlanc

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/27/2022


Synopsis

Many of the systems built to serve people instead do more harm than good.



In Broken, Dr. Paul LeBlanc, president of Southern New Hampshire University, draws on his experience working in one such system—education—to reconnect us to the human facets of serving people. In doing so, he charts a course for rebuilding and reinhabiting better systems across education, healthcare, criminal justice, government, and more.



The United States spends enormous sums on helping people—$3.8 trillion on healthcare, $182 billion on prisons, and $604 billion on higher education—and yet these systems routinely fail us.



When we seek to improve how they function, our efforts focus on policy debates, technical solutions, funding, and data. But if these systems are to truly improve, we have to start with the human values that fuel decision making.



Broken explores the deeply human dimensions we must consider—aspiring, discovering, mattering—if we want to rebuild the policies, technologies, processes, and, most importantly, the heart we use to serve people.

Author Bio

Dr. Paul J. LeBlanc is president of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). Under the eighteen years of Paul's direction, SNHU has grown from 2,800 students to more than 170,000 and is the largest nonprofit provider of online higher education in the country, and the first to have a full competency-based degree program untethered to the credit hour or classes approved by a regional accreditor and the US Department of Education.

In 2012 the university was number twelve on Fast Company magazine's "World's Fifty Most Innovative Companies" list and was the only university included. Forbes magazine has listed Paul as one of its fifteen "Classroom Revolutionaries" and one of the "most influential people in higher education" for 2016, and Washington Monthly named him one of America's ten 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.

He has served on the Board of the American Council on Education, the Association of Governing Boards President's Council, and the Academy of Sciences Board on Workforce and Higher Education, as well as many others. He is a sought-after speaker, often appears in the media, and is a contributing writer to Forbes magazine.

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