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International Women’s Day: ¼ of the Top 200 Higher Ed Leaders Worldwide are Women

Insight Into Diversity

President of WPG, Andrea Silbert, said to Forbes, “This speaks to an increased awareness of the importance of having academic leadership that represents the diversity of the student population it serves… it’s high time we’re starting to see more gender and racial diversity reflected in the highest roles in academia.”

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5 Reasons Why University Leadership Roles Should Be Open to Those Without a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

" The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. And even today, I remain skeptical and suspicious of those from outside of academia (and who do not hold a doctorate) who are recruited to university presidencies and other leadership roles.

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How CIOs can take advantage of the AI revolution

University Business

As academia continues to grapple with the speedy advancement of AI, CIOs must be willing to step up and educate their campuses on practical use cases of this groundbreaking technology.

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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

“Since its founding 13 years ago, the Wyss Institute has been devoted to breaking down silos within and between academia and industry,” said Harvard University president Larry Bacow.

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‘House of the Dragon’ Is Obviously a Thinly Veiled Exploration of Academic Politics

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. The show you want to watch if you want to understand how a university actually works is HBO’s thinly veiled academic drama, House of the Dragon.

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Where Higher Ed Should Be More Businesslike

Inside Higher Ed

While I believe my criticisms of those books have proven well founded, there is one area where I have grown more sympathetic to the big-picture critique of higher ed as institutions that are too hidebound and should indeed consider embracing some methods that may look more like “business” than “academia.”

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

He will replace the long-reigning president, Phil DiStefano, who has overseen the campus for 15 years. Schwartz’s current duties at Penn State have made him an indispensable candidate for a university president who beat out over 90 other applicants for the job at CU Boulder.