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

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. We have many examples of university leaders who came from traditional disciplinary backgrounds.

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

Insight Into Diversity

The 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been released, and analysis reveals that, for the first time, 50 of the top 200 institutions are led by women. Since the eighties, women comprised a majority on college campuses while institutional leadership remained predominantly male.

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How CIOs can take advantage of the AI revolution

University Business

Oral Roberts University is currently deploying AI solutions on its campus network by leveraging Extreme Networks CloudIQ CoPilot. 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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‘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. What are you watching?

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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

Entrepreneur and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has donated an additional $350 million to Harvard University to support the research center that bears his name: the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009.

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

University Business

All three presidents who announced retirements in the past two weeks served at their institutions for more than a decade, which is a promising sign considering recent surveys found presidential tenures dwindling to less than six years. Stephenson is currently the president of Northwest Florida State College, a community college.

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Presidential exits: Some leave on a high note, others entrenched in scandal

University Business

On the flip side, another president didn’t make it into his first year before resigning, and one president of a major university left following two “embarrassing” mishaps. More from UB: Higher fees for higher ed: How schools are combatting newly proposed tuition hikes Retiring presidents Kent J.