The value of outside perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to education

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hilary L. Link, Ph.D., is the first female President of Allegheny College — one of the nation’s oldest and most innovative colleges where multidisciplinary learning breaks the conventional mold.  She is a recognized leader, scholar of Italian Language and Literature, and globalist. In more than 20 years of experience across a broad range of institutions, she’s provided students with a cross-disciplinary path to think critically and communicate creatively.</span></p> <p> </p> <h2><strong>Show Highlights</strong></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Value of outside perspectives that shows up in your work</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Allegheny’s multi-disciplinary approach forces you to learn into different lenses to be more than one thing</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How a leader keeps the institution moving forward without getting caught up in the tyranny of the urgent</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Navigating challenges female leaders and mothers faces </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Balance strength with accessibility for personal engagement</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Drink beer for breakfast to evolve like a 16th century scientist for proper perspective </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Take a 2 hour lunch to see the value in human connection</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Use a Ruckus Making year of disruptions to own your own agency of change</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“One of the interesting things is that people are still trying to sort out as with me as a woman, where the lin