The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The presidential turnover crisis in higher education has seen university presidents’ tenures steadily diminishing for nearly two decades, now falling significantly short of the recommended ten-year benchmark. A case in point is West Virginia University, which recently contended with a staggering $70 million deficit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Henry McMaster and Marshall University President Brad D. developing related policies in K-12 and postsecondary education as well as 3.) We need to be proactive now, because AI is fundamentally shifting the classroom and the workplace,” said SREB President Dr. South Carolina Gov. using AI in teaching and learning and 2.)

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The scorecard comes in light of University President Taylor Randall’s statement on HB 261 that a “deep assessment” of university policies and processes would be conducted “as part of the work to understand the new law.”

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University Equity Inclusivity Retention 98

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Over the past four years, some higher education officials and politicians have pushed back: for example, in 2020, a group of university presidents and athletic directors in Massachusetts testified before the state Legislature with the strong recommendation not to legalize college sports betting in Massachusetts.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The root of your institution’s dwindling finances and performance challenges might very well be a narcissistic president. As the skill requirements of university presidents today lend them to be more public-facing, narcissists yearning for admiration from community followers may seek the position to satisfy their needs.

Higher Education 97

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University Business

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the school’s board of trustees has minced words on exactly why, they revealed it has to do with violating the military college’s policies and “values,” VTDigger reports. The former president describes his parting with the university as a “mutual decision.”

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University Business

MAY 16, 2023

Moreover, the bill places higher accountability on university presidents to fire faculty. It also requires schools to establish an Office of Public Policy Events to ensure speaker events host a range of diverging opinions on public policy.

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University Business

JULY 18, 2023

Wes Moore (D) announced Monday the appointments of former college presidents, educators and nonprofit leaders to the state’s Higher Education Commission, nearly turning over the entire membership of the panel that oversees statewide higher education policies.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Liberty has faced increasing public pressure in recent years over policies that survivors say allow sexual violence to run unchecked. The preliminary report says overlooked allegations of violence reached all the way to the top, including accusations involving a former university president and a senior administrator.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Supreme Court heard arguments regarding race-conscious admissions policies, higher education stakeholders gathered to discuss the barriers keeping more women and people of color from becoming college and university presidents. According to 2021 data, 60% of the University of California (UC) chancellors are white.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 19, 2024

The LGBTQ+ group alleges a violation of its First Amendment rights to free speech, also citing a policy that prevents university leaders from denying facility access due to political, religious, or ideological beliefs. The post Drag Show Bans Persist at West Texas A&M appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

” Brown University President Christina Paxson made a similar refrain at the National Summit for Equal Opportunity in July when she discussed the programs already in place for under-resourced students, of which the public is largely unaware. DePauw University President Lori S.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Executive director Mark Overmann led the discussion with guest speakers Maureen Manning, vice president of strategy and insight at The PIE, and Jill Welch, senior policy advisor at the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and featured columnist for the “Jill on the Hill” policy update in The PIE News.

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Students Advocate Policy Professional Development 88

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Professor of Psychology, Pepperdine University; President, American Psychological Association Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis is a professor of psychology in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University. In 2021, she was elected president of the American Psychological Association (APA).

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University President Policy Schooling Education 58

University Business

JULY 20, 2023

Three prominent schools have updated their admissions policy to no longer consider a student’s legacy status after considering the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action. However, colleges had long been preparing for the Supreme Court to strike down affirmative action.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 29, 2023

Citing just one memorable moment of a leader voicing a powerful, eloquent truth, Dr. Burns recalled a 2020 conversation with Arizona State University President Michael Crow : "He talks about that we're just sailing, that these are choppy winds, these are intense seas, but it's just sailing.

Leadership 89

Leadership Policy Higher Education Humanities 89

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Dozens of panel and plenary sessions were offered at this year’s meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) including a panel titled, “Historic Role of University Presidents in Shaping Racial Policies and Practice,” and keynotes by David Hogg and Jaclyn Corin, co-founders of the March for Our Lives.

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Retention Students Professional Development Scholarship 91

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

“Your recent statement that these professors’ expression constituted ‘academic dishonesty’ warranting ‘disciplinary action’ has no basis in law or Bluefield policy,” wrote Alex Morey, FIRE’s campus rights advocacy director.

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Faculty Organization College Administration Policy 76

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

His presence—working alongside Montgomery, who is African American—is rare in academe, where only a few university presidents of color at research universities have also tapped a person of color to serve as their provost and vice president of academic affairs—a strategic position—viewed as the number two post at an institution.

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Provost University Leadership Deans 98

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 1, 2023

New York City comptroller Brad Lander sent a letter to Yeshiva University president Ari Berman on Monday urging him to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group that sued the university in 2021 for failing to do so. A New York appeals court ruled in December that the university must recognize the club.

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Environment Humanities Organization University President 75

University Business

JULY 5, 2023

But Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth and Amin Abdul-Malik Gonzalez, Vice President and Dean of Admission and Financial Aid, find the ruling tone deaf. ” In the near term It remains unclear to NASFAA what the ramifications will be on financial aid by striking down affirmative action.

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Scholarship Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Policy 52

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The office also was concerned that the university president’s initial response to the office opening an investigation “may have perpetuated a hostile environment” and discouraged students who filed the federal complaint from speaking with the agency about their experiences.

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Environment Department University President Policy 80

Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

As a major step toward more equitable admissions policies following the U.S. Supreme Court ban on affirmative action, college and university leaders, politicians, education experts, and the general public are calling for an end to legacy admissions — the practice of giving preference to students who have familial connections to alumni.

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Department Of Education Policy Educational Policy Higher Education 110

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

As one of the most decorated college presidents in America, President Sorrell was named Higher Education’s President of the Year by Education Dive , one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine , and one of the “31 People Changing the South” by Time Magazine. President Sorrell B.A.

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Leadership Humanities Professional Development Higher Education 90

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The second step is preserving the policies that make up Bloomfield’s identity as a supportive environment for first-generation and low-income college students. Additionally, the Bloomfield faculty provides a tremendous amount of mentoring, tutoring and other support to students, which is enabled by Bloomfield’s course load policy.

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Faculty Administration Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences 98

Higher Education Today

MARCH 6, 2023

Jack This blog post is part of the American College President Study body of work generously supported by the TIAA Institute. ACE will release The American College President: 2023 Edition on April 14. Since the founding of American higher education, college and university presidents have generally been White men—even.

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College Higher Education University President Institution 94

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He also serves on the board of multiple organizations, including the American Academic Leadership Institute, of which he is board vice chair; the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems; and Goodwill Industries of Arkansas.

Leadership 111

Leadership Organization Higher Education Community College 111

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Solutions for eradicating them range from empowering students to adopting free speech policies. It’s hardly a new observation that, in corporatespeak, colleges and universities are ailing companies. As Temple University president Jason Wingard writes , our attrition rates would send a corporate entity into meltdown.

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Organization Faculty Achievement Leadership 98

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

I am a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Heitkamp is a member of the advisory board of the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. For some time now, public officials have moved from elected office into positions at universities.

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Students Academia Environment Faculty 105

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M. “And that’s what we do with all situations—we address them using our values and our policies and deal with each situation with its own sets of facts. We have a comprehensive approach.”

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Policy Administration Law School Dean Of Students 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Javier Cevallos was recently appointed president of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI). Dr. Javier Cevallos Cevallos is currently president-in-residence of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Leadership 75

Leadership Institution Provost Advise 75

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

He served as Senior Policy Advisor to Under Secretary Ted Mitchell at the U.S. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Dr. Bridget Burns is the founder and CEO of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA). The UIA was developed during Bridget’s tenure as an American Council on Education (A.C.E.)

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Leadership Higher Education Policy Arts And Sciences 127

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 28, 2023

Citing just one memorable moment of a leader voicing a powerful, eloquent truth, Dr. Burns recalled a 2020 conversation with Arizona State University President Michael Crow : "He talks about that we're just sailing, that these are choppy winds, these are intense seas, but it's just sailing.

Leadership 52

Leadership Policy Higher Education Humanities 52

University Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

As its new president, he aims to increase leadership transparency and regain the community’s trust in the institution, The New York Times reports. Guskiewicz is the sixth president in six years and comes in after head football coach Mel Tuckers was found to have violated the school’s sexual misconduct policy.

Leadership 98

Leadership Deans Higher Education Department Of Education 98

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Grand Canyon University for deceptive advertising, illegal telemarketing, and misrepresenting the school as a nonprofit institution, according to Reuters. Grand Canyon University President Brian Mueller speaks during a Nov. Department of Education decisions.

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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 But over the past 20 years, the tenure of the university president has decreased a little bit. Brit, welcome to the show.

Leadership 52

Leadership Higher Education University President Arts And Sciences 52

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

APRIL 1, 2024

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. Most industry lobbies have PACs and do things differently than we do in higher education.”

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