Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

At a time when public confidence in higher education has dropped sharply—14 percentage points in just two years—the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is moving forward with purpose, civility and a can-do attitude. Existing faculty structures have done a poor job of maintaining intellectual diversity.

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University Business

APRIL 23, 2024

Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

Per the university’s preliminary recommendations released on Friday, it suggests cutting 32 academic programs, 12 of which are undergraduate majors. The decision will place 169 faculty positions in jeopardy, or about 7% of its Morgantown campus cohort. These faculty are our colleagues, our neighbors and our friends.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Here in Louisiana, the Attorney General attempted to have a tenured faculty member punished for a tweet criticizing one of his staff members who attended a faculty meeting to speak against COVID practices the university was considering. Faculty in several Southern states are making the same decisions.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When students took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize UCLA on behalf of professors who advocated for their participation at a pro-Palestine teach-in on the recent Hamas-Israel conflict , the university quickly responded to cut down anyone’s belief that it intentionally endorses such an event.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

SNHU president Paul LeBlanc's new book, Broken , is about scale. If any university president is well placed to think about scale, it is LeBlanc. SNHU is the largest university in the US, enrolling around 178,000 students. Instead, the faculty focus on instruction.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Drumm McNaughton McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. Notable among these are faculty departures and a discernible decline in academic standards.

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University Business

MARCH 22, 2024

Alger has long established a strong commitment to civic engagement among student as well, becoming one of the first recipients of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Standout Campus President Award for increasing student voting rates. Faculty and student relations with the former president, the Rev. a four-year tenure.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

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. More from UB: The human toll of rampant college closures Retired Bradley Creed – Campbell University (N.C.)

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see? Faculty are overwhelmingly democrats or left-leaning, by a ratio of 9 to 1. For them, college is not just a process of learning job skills or imbibing information, but an highly impactful experience in human development.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Thought leaders to follow Anant Agarwal Anant Argarwal ’s mantra is direct: “education is a human right–everyone should have access to it like the air we breathe.” 4 Lessons from University Presidents on Crisis Thinking and Resilient Leadership Nathan D. Here are a few people we are following. Grawe Nathan D.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. It’s atypical for most university presidents.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JANUARY 19, 2024

“When I came to Empire State University last summer, I said to our chief, ‘Do not worry, you will never hear me say the word crisis or emergency unless people or property are genuinely threatened.’ And he said, ‘Thank goodness, you may be the first university president to speak like that.’”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

President turnover is a major problem for higher ed leadership, with the average tenure of leaders serving in this capacity at one institution declining sharply from 10 years to a shocking 3.7 Funding issues are mounting and will likely worsen, forcing presidents to make massive cuts to programs, negatively affecting faculty morale.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

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 decade—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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

“To 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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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 6, 2023

Here I'm in service to thousands of students and all the faculty and staff, and the day that it doesn't feel like a privilege is the day I should quit. I want my faculty and staff to reflect that diversity. President Sheares Ashby offered us two books: "I've gone to this one for a long time. That's the core value, I think."

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Modifying Traditional Higher Ed Models of Faculty Responsibilities The traditional higher education model often adheres to a distribution of faculty workload as 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It lasted for two days, and resources from the chancellor’s office and every CSU president supported the symposium. Part of the symposium’s goal was not just to pay attention to the legacy of Juneteenth but to listen to the experiences of Black students, faculty, and staff. CSU is also not working to exclude the non-Black community.

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2023

Determined to leverage these tools in higher education, the University of North Texas and Reynolds Community College (Va.) are building a culture of faculty and administrators equipped to leverage AI-powered predictive analytics and data visualization products to strategize more effective enrollment tactics.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. As a faculty member, then-Professor LeBlanc promised himself, "When I mess up, I'm going to get in front of people and say so.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Parkes, whose production credits include such hits as WarGames, Gladiator, Men in Black, and Minority Report, has partnered with Arizona State University president Michael Crow to leverage the latest in virtual reality (VR) cinematography to transform introductory coursework, beginning in biology.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

In many ways, the experiences of college presidents prepare them well to enable institutions beyond the academy to engage the current environment effectively. Why Are Presidents Moving to Cultural Institutions? The voice of the American university president as a public intellectual was once a well-recognized force.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M. He also noted antibias and antiharassment training provided by the university is required for all students, faculty and staff members. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Antoinette “Bonnie” Candia-Bailey Lincoln University In an email sent on the day of her death , Candia-Bailey, who served as vice president of student affairs at Lincoln University in Missouri, a historically Black university, accused Dr. John Moseley, the university's president, of harassment and bullying. “You

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2023

Michael shares easy-to-understand analogies to explain how and why AI functions the way it does, the problems AI can solve in higher ed, the importance of not having AI replace but augment human workers in district processes, and the benefits and shortcomings of tools such as ChatGPT. This leads to automating this insight to refine itself.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Her career spans public and private institutions in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Michigan, with notable achievements at Northeastern University. President Mantella holds a Ph.D. Her leadership revolves around integrity and empowering GVSU’s faculty and staff to drive its success. You’ve taught that way.

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EAB

APRIL 17, 2023

Petersburg College offers multiple Subplans , such as Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist, Compliance and History, Management, Human Services, Public Relations and Marketing, and Respiratory Care. Florida International University Capstone Projects/Courses: Not offered. Internships: Optional internship.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Leading Through Inclusion and Accountability While President Takeda-Tinker has seen all kinds of leadership throughout her career, she focuses on positive examples: “Leadership is about human connectedness. Facing the realities of our own human limitations is part of that work.” We listen to our faculty.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

15 August · Episode 168 Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education 40 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Eric shares how faculty, staff, and students can approach free speech and respectful dialogue by conducting co-teaching practices and exercises. So that creates a little bit of a different dynamic with faculty.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 25, 2023

The biggest killer of innovation initiatives is when the university president or CEO or business unit leader charters a person or a group and says, 'You are my discovery group. You're the human on my team who's leading this bunch of folks who are going to help us learn how to operate on the frontier.'

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Three Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Resource Allocation for Comprehensive Support Systems: Focus on academic aspects and ancillary support systems central to student success , such as counseling services , student activities, childcare, and housing. They’re going and attending the faculty visitations.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. But of course, there’s also the pieces around data analytics that can be applied to the way the universities run themselves.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

Presidential Preparedness for Communication The readiness of university presidents for high-stakes communication must be a high priority, especially for new presidents. So our clients are colleges, universities, associations, foundations, affiliated businesses. ” [00:50:48] Erin Hennessy: Yes.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To get it done, university presidents will need to tell conference commissioners to work together for the collective good, or Congress will get involved. University presidents will need to identify what they want to achieve from college sports. Amy Perko 05:19 Absolutely. Sports is one way in which they can do that.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

This principle allows faculty to conduct research and reach conclusions independently, free from external influences, fostering a rich environment for teaching, learning, and inquiry. We went through the Red Scare, the McCarthy years, which certainly put many faculty in the crosshairs of McCarthy’s Inquisition, if you will.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Adding the Human Element. Just about everyone can point to surprises along their career path, and President Blake shared his. "I Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Dr. Bridget Burns is the founder and CEO of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA).

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