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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

How many university leaders return to their former academic identity and role, or at least do so willingly? At an operational level, endless demands leave no time for academic pursuits for those at the summit of university leadership. Few leaders, if any, will visit the classroom or undertake research.

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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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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As I navigated through my undergraduate years at Alabama A&M University and then pursued advanced studies at Virginia State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I witnessed the evolving dynamics of higher education. The increased focus on diversity and inclusion was both a challenge and an opportunity.

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A Deeper Study of Higher Education Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

My doctorate was in leadership, and I fell in love with leadership in lots of different areas: business and industry, the military, sports and coaching. Involve the board deeply in the strategic work, engage them in the policy and advocacy work, and help them help you create the right kind of infrastructure to do amazing work.

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Students nationwide fight for reproductive rights on campus

Inside Higher Ed

On what has been dubbed the Day of Action , students across the country plan to hold rallies, protests, strikes and other on-campus demonstrations that will call on university leadership to take steps to protect reproductive and transgender rights.