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Southern New Hampshire University President to Step Down Next Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He also for a time served as senior policy adviser to Under Secretary Ted Mitchell at the Obama-era Department of Education. They have done it in refugee camps, in low-income communities, and with students who are too often left behind by traditional higher education – this is disruptive education in service to humanity.”

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Showing the Human Face of Higher Ed Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Michael Sorrell , longtime president of Paul Quinn College. We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength.

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A university president in Ukraine turns to social media

Inside Higher Ed

Previously Ukraine’s minister of economic development under the Honcharuk government and an adviser to its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Mylovanov knows well the value of good press. “I wanted people to feel that we’re human. It’s easier for people to connect with us when they see us in our daily lives.

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To Speak or Not to Speak?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

β€œTo the extent that you allow the governor or the legislature to set the terms when it comes to what you teach, how you teach it, and how you care for your people, then you have lost your soul as a university.” Tania Tetlow, president of Fordham University Tetlow thought that a measured tone was the key to getting a message across.

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The 100th Innovating Together Podcast

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

She spoke about the origins of the podcast, the challenges that all higher ed leaders share regardless of institution, the roles of generosity and kindness in leadership, and the necessary qualities of humanity and humility. But the most presidential moments have been people showing their true heart and being the most human.

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Innovating Through Failure. and Success

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

If a university's a body, where's the ear? The closest thing we have is advising or a help desk, but they're designed to tell the student how they can change their behavior to accommodate into our systems. There is not a space where universities ask, 'What do you need? You can use it as an extension of advising.

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decadeβ€”or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.