An Uncommon Success Story: Unity Environmental University President and CEO, Dr. Melik Khoury

<p>In our final Season 4 episode, we speak with <a href="https://unity.edu/about/office-of-the-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Dr. Melik Khoury</a> about the remarkable reengineering he has led at <a href="https://unity.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Unity Environmental University</a>. Khoury is an education entrepreneur whose blend of industry-disrupting vision, strategic financial planning, and managerial expertise has fostered sustainable growth in higher education for over 16 years. Under his leadership, Unity is beating the odds, growing from a small residential college serving fewer than 500 students a decade ago to 7,500-plus students today. During our conversation, Khoury unpacks the most essential building blocks that comprise his strategy including rethinking governance and restructuring the organizational and financial model to introduce what Khoury calls <a href="https://unity.edu/about/reinventing-college/enterprise/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sustainable Education Business Units</a>—“SEBU” for short.  Unity&#39;s enrollment boom and success at finding a niche in an increasingly competitive and crowded market are remarkable. Khoury&#39;s advice for leaders of other small private colleges? “Free your mind, and the rest will follow,” he says, quoting the lyric from the R&amp;B group <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7iQbBbMAFE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">En Vogue,</a> while adding a verse of his own: “Respect your history, but don’t get shackled by it.”</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chelip/message