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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

By comparison to other international higher education sectors, especially the US , and despite media headlines , UK vice-chancellors are poorly paid. Brexit has made UK higher education a less desirable destination for senior leaders. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative. And then, of course, there’s the British weather.

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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. As the thinking goes, professors will only ever truly respect their fellow guild members.

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Generative AI and the Automating of Academia: Insights from Dr. Donna Lanclos and Lawrie Phipps

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Generative AI and automating academia in the style of Bauhaus The landscape of academia is undergoing a seismic shift with the advent of generative AI tools like ChatGPT. A recent discussion featuring Dr. Donna Lanclos, an anthropologist, and Lawrie Phipps, an educational developer, shed light on this transformative era.

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Navigating Turbulent Waters: Leading Your Institution in Times of Disruption and Uncertainty

Helix Education

This may include collaborations with private industry, international organizations, and philanthropic entities to sustain critical academic research and support student access to education. Woefully few universities do.

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How toxic incentives are fueling an ‘epidemic’ of cheating in scholarly research

University Business

” “Academia is an industry,” he says. “Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-public entity with hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in it. . ” The higher education sector of the U.S. research and development industry was worth $91.4

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

Inside Higher Ed

“You know, we’ve had decades of very solid support from the university leadership and there was a reason for that, because—I’m not sure if this is a little bit of vanity or just accuracy—I’ve done everything imaginable for years here to build trust between a university-based organization and the general public.