Changing Leviathan

After years of teaching in higher education, John Muller was called to lead a small, struggling university in the middle of the country. He quickly realized that he would have to rethink all the traditional assumptions of higher education if the university was to survive.

Changing Leviathan is his story of a remarkable turn-around in post-secondary education ... a story of a university that was on the verge of bankruptcy changed to one that is innovative, outward-facing and successful. In John’s last year with the university, the amount paid out in faculty and staff bonuses alone was more than twice the entire institution’s budget his first year.

This is an instructive primer for institutions that want to:

• Increase revenue
• Increase enrollments
• Reduce their discount rate
• Reduce debt
• Create an engaged and committed faculty and staff
• Create innovative strategies to accomplish all of the above.

John Muller earned his master’s and doctoral degrees at Purdue University and taught at Roberts Wesleyan College and Hillsdale College before becoming president of Bellevue University.