“A Case for Mischief Makers,” an article co-written by Shenandoah Conservatory Dean and Professor of Music Michael Stepniak, Ed.D., and Dean of the Conservatory at Lawrence University Conservatory of Music Brian Pertl, Ph.D., was published by Inside Higher Ed on Jan. 14. The article, aimed at a national audience of fellow academic leaders, challenges leaders to hire people who have a natural impulse to question tradition.