University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. Higher education tends to push things into disciplines that separate people from one another, Jones says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Paul LeBlanc During his tenure as SNHU’s fifth president, the school grew from 2,500 students to the largest nonprofit higher ed provider in the U.S., Lisa Marsh Ryerson will become SNHU president, effective Jul. with more than 225,000 learners. She is currently the school’s provost.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks. Fleming, president and CEO of the J. The humanities do great things for the way people think, and their ability to empathize and imagine worlds they are not a part of,” said Fleming. Dr. Nicholas B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Javier Cevallos More importantly, the 700 survey participants and the 14 presidents who participated in four focus groups opened up about what it feels like to hold these roles, shared the humanity needed to live these positions, and were truthful about the resiliency necessary to survive them.

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

Lawmakers are exacerbating mistrust in higher education, and it’s up to our leaders to boldly protect the sector from political overreach, Lynn Pasquerella, president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), says on the second episode of The University Business Podcast.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 22, 2025

In a stirring call to action, more than 100 distinguished former college and university leaders from across the nation have joined PEN America to launch A Pledge to Our Democracy , a unified stand against the growing threats of authoritarianism. The current administration has threatened one of the hallmarks of our Democracy: education.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

No, we will have a new normal,” said West Virginia University President Gordon Gee in an interview with Stateline. “We And they very much want to see universities, particularly land grant institutions like ours, become engines of creativity and economic development.” “Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. Dr. Hsu used insights from these industry relationships to guide curriculum focus areas and workforce development efforts at the College of Charleston.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

After reading this year’s report, my position remains unchanged, prompting me to offer a few tidbits of advice to college and university presidents and their advancement teams in preparation for fundraising for the 2023-2024 Academic Year. billion and $516.65 billion in charitable giving, respectively.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Colleges and universities have struggled to avoid developing a campus monoculture that diminishes the opportunity for intellectual challenge, debate and dialogue. So far, given national surveys of faculty political allegiance, the humanities and social sciences tilt very far to blue rather than red.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

However, human knowledge and expertise have a limit and cannot adapt to the real-time network needs of a campus. CIOs and their network support engineers constantly have to find creative ways to improve their network configurations to support the ever-growing number of devices on campus. This is where AI shines.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Co-hosted by the Commission on Higher Education, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Education and the Guiyang Institute of Humanities and Technology, the partnerships were signed during the Philippines – China University President Cooperation Dialogue, which took place during China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week.

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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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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. "I Let's open up something called the Marlboro College Grad Center.' Clay and I met long before he was famous," President LeBlanc said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

As Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida state legislature have raced to re-shape higher education in the state with bills restricting DEI efforts, limiting tenure protections, and banning the teaching of controversial subjects, the silence from Florida’s public college leaders has been deafening. They may have good reason to fear.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Interestingly, the veil that Du Bois wrote about still exists today, especially in the American Academy — the network of colleges, universities, associations, and organizations that provide and support higher education — despite the fact that some of America’s most illustrious educational institutions are headed by Black provosts and presidents.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 29, 2023

She spoke about the origins of the podcast, the challenges that all higher ed leaders share regardless of institution, the roles of generosity and kindness in leadership, and the necessary qualities of humanity and humility. But the most presidential moments have been people showing their true heart and being the most human.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

—About a decade ago, nearly all—97 percent—of IBM’s job advertisements required a four-year college degree, according to David Barnes, vice president of global workforce policy at the tech giant, who spoke this week at the annual SXSW EDU conference here. Image: AUSTIN, Tex.—About

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

When conservatives look at our colleges and universities, what do they see? Students of traditional college age, 18 to 25, are still developing cognitively, politically, and ethically. 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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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

GallupLumina data shows why trust in higher ed is decliningand what colleges must do to regain credibility, relevance, and workforce alignment. Only one-third of Americans now say they have confidence in colleges and universitiesdown from more than 60% less than a decade ago. Make value transparent.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

The image of the student reading Mein Kampf was shared on the social media platform Snapchat and led to the filing of an online complaint with the university, according to an email from Jewish faith leaders addressed to Jewish Stanford students. FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 9, 2024

Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline A Conversation With Aimée Eubanks Davis, Founder and CEO of Braven Elana Thu, 08/15/2024 - 18:01 Image College to Career First Generation Weekly Wisdom Braven is an inspiring organization: a nonprofit that partners with higher education institutions to guide their graduates into the workforce.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A transformative $10 million donation has been announced at Salem State University in Massachusetts, aimed at providing substantial scholarships for students in the Maguire Meservey College of Health and Human Services and the McKeown School of Education. Keenan said in a press release.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In December 2022, my colleagues and I took over 40 presidents to Los Angeles to experience virtual reality live and in-person (ironically) with Dreamscape Learn , a new venture spearheaded by esteemed Hollywood producer Walter Parkes. What will college be like in that world? How many “virtual universities” will emerge?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

As traditional state capital support declines, colleges and universities are turning to new capital funding strategies in higher education to address urgent infrastructure needs and student housing demands. So today there’s been collaborations targeted on a wide variety of areas of interest, human performance.

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

West Virginia University is continuing a trend of drastic changes to its academic program and structure. This time, however, it’s not just focused on consolidating colleges. Per the university’s preliminary recommendations released on Friday, it suggests cutting 32 academic programs, 12 of which are undergraduate majors.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. Click the banner below to watch the video. Click here for the full audio.

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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.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Knights Commission proposes there should be one governing association for football called the National College Football Association that’s separate from the governing association. That said, the College Football Playoff does distribute the revenue back to the FBS conferences, which is then sent to the schools.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Brian Blake sat down with us to discuss his first year at Georgia State University. President Blake recalled how his path to the presidency of this historic institution had included his previous career in the technology sector, well outside of academia. Click the banner below to watch the video. Click here for the full audio.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

The Path From College to Careers. President Blake has proposed a four-pillar strategy for the shared aspirations of Georgia State: research and innovation; student success; college to careers; and identity and placemaking. So my college-to-careers pillar is all about creating that ecosystem here. Adding the Human Element.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Could your students recognize the dean of their college if they passed them in a hallway? A seemingly simple question, but for Sacred Heart University President John Petillo this present-mindedness is a difference maker in convincing students to return to an institution.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The report includes the specific case of the hostile takeover of New College, describing it as a blueprint for potential future encroachments on public colleges and universities across the United States. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. Sharon Perry Fantini , Vice Provost for Equity Access and Opportunity at Iowa State University. • The Need for Completion Grants.

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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.) Preparing for the storm Simon thanks his university president, Neal Smatresk, for modernizing North Texas’ enrollment strategies. “It ‘Why is this a game changer?

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