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5 tips for college and university presidents to support diversity, equity and inclusion

University Business

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. Integrate DEI or DEIB into your college or university’s mission statement.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The 2023 American College Presidents Study (ACPS) was released with sadly predictable results. The ACPS, conducted by the American Council on Education and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) Institute, found that 61% of college presidents surveyed were men, and 46% were white men.

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Southern New Hampshire University President to Step Down Next Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S., Lisa Marsh Ryerson will become SNHU president, effective Jul. with more than 225,000 learners. She is currently the school’s provost.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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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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Flagship public universities likely to cut more humanities, staff — especially in rural states - ELAINE S. POVICH, Kansas Reflector

Economics and Change in Higher Education

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.”

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China, Philippines HEIs sign STEM partnerships

The PIE News

Ten higher education institutions in the Philippines have partnered with Chinese institutions, in a bid to boost collaboration and partnership in the fields of science, technology, agriculture and mathematics. It intends to build vocational skills and boost employment, the leader of the Philippine institution added. Prospero E.