LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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.

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Echo Delta

JANUARY 20, 2023

Could it be that leadership is out of touch and wants the institution to be like it was when they were students in the 70s or 80s? Or, the academic offerings are out of date and no longer desired by today’s high school graduates. What were your GPA and SAT scores in high school?” Ask the right questions.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

A Minnesota native, Hostetter has made a career out of academia in which she first began as a middle and high school teacher before attaining her master’s and doing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Board of Regents agreed to pay $1.9 million for Shepard’s severance package.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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. “Protest is an important tool that we have in this country,” she said.

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