Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The announcement from the American Council of Education (ACE) on Thursday, recognizes Howard's designation as an institution of very high research spending and doctorate production, a status that fewer than 150 universities nationwide have achieved. Department of Education. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

Achievement

The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 2, 2025

Why 80% of Change Initiatives Fail (And How to Be in the Successful 20%) Roughly 80% of change efforts in higher education fail. The Three Pillars of Effective Change Management in Higher Education Holistic Thinking: Connecting the Institutional Dots Higher education institutions are ecosystems.

Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2025

Paxson, Browns president, has been extended an additional 2 years to June 30, 2028. Paxson has served as president of Brown since 2012. During a tumultuous time facing American higher education, Brown is fortunate to benefit from President Paxsons steady and principled leadership, wrote Brown University Chancellor Brian T.

University President

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

April 29, 2025 · Episode 257 Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In 34 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status.

Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A Lumina Foundation convening brought together leaders from historically Black colleges and universities to engage with researchers, policy experts and the philanthropic community to strategize on the future of these storied institutions.

Environment

Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

As the nation reflects on the results of yesterday’s election, the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration reaffirms our steadfast commitment to undocumented, immigrant-origin, international, and refugee students, and policies that recognize their essential role in the future workforce and leadership of our country.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 28, 2025

Ono as the university's 14th president, despite intense scrutiny from conservative activists and Republican lawmakers who questioned his commitment to Florida's higher education reforms. Ron DeSantis's higher education overhauls that have dismantled DEI programs across Florida's public universities.

Arts And Sciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Today, women serve as CEOs, university presidents, political leaders, and cultural pioneers. She exemplifies the empathy and innovation that women bring to leadership in higher education. Figures such as Dr. Ruth Simmons, the first Black female president of an Ivy League university; and Dr. Melissa L.

Leadership

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

April 15, 2025 · Episode 255 The State of Public Trust in Higher Education: Insights from Gallup-Lumina Foundation 33 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. GallupLumina data shows why trust in higher ed is decliningand what colleges must do to regain credibility, relevance, and workforce alignment.

Higher Education

The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 20, 2025

How Can Higher Education Evolve to Serve Diverse Learners? Yet todays reality is different : the majority of learners are working adults, first-generation students, caregivers, veterans, and individuals balancing education with lifes other demands. deLaski, founder of Education Design Lab and author of Who Needs College Anymore?

Model

University Business

MAY 15, 2025

Many universities enforce strict standards for office sizes, finishes, and furniture to ensure equity and control costs. But these standards often conflict with municipal norms, where the police chief would be equivalent to the university president. Resolving these differences requires thoughtful dialogue.

Facilities

University Business

APRIL 25, 2025

In this moment of extraordinary uncertainty, college and university presidents find themselves navigating an unforgiving landscape: political scrutiny, financial volatility, eroding public trust, and shifting student expectations. The debate over the value of higher education is not going away.

College

The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 15, 2025

Redefining Risk to Enable Innovation and Progress Higher education often treats risk as something to avoid, which discourages innovation. Three Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Create a focused strategy that makes real choices. Felix urges leaders to reframe risk as a condition for progress.

Students

Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

[Editor's note: This essay, written for elite university presidents, is intended as a rhetorical device rather than a statement of facts. Elite universities, long considered the pinnacle of higher education, have become increasingly entwined in a broader conversation about privilege, access, and power.

University President

The Change Leader, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2025

This includes integrating leadership into academic curriculum and general education requirements, assigning measurable learning outcomes, and teaching it with the same rigor applied to disciplines such as writing or quantitative reasoning.

Leadership

University Business

JANUARY 30, 2025

Colleges and universities already worrying about maintaining their relevance to prospective students and the workforce are also now entrenched in a new drama few are adequately prepared for: the increasing litigation and compliance involved in the sector. The symposium, hosted by Touro Law, was recorded and published on its website. .

College

Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 21, 2025

The President & Fellows of Harvard College, later known as the Harvard Corporation, became the central executive body. Comprised of the university's president and a small group of influential fellows, the Corporation held fiduciary responsibility for all decisions related to the university’s finances, policies, and strategic direction.

Inclusivity

Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on November 5 has cast uncertainty over the future of higher education in the United States, with experts voicing concern about potential policy shifts and funding cuts. Mitchell cited Trump’s campaign rhetoric, which included attacks on higher education, as a major concern. “We

Higher Education

The PIE News

JUNE 16, 2025

Check out: Tuesday, July 29 – ‘Policy update – the next steps for Australia; Monday, July 28 – Australian Government Futu re Focus Dialogue: Australian international education and skills (invite-only)’ 2. Will the snake eat itself or will we reach a higher plane of productivity? Our audience will decide.

Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2025

For higher education, Ohio has also become a bellwether state for displaying the end goal of the current targeted attacks on educational diversity and access. Debating the effectiveness of boards of trustees is not a new conversation topic in higher education.

Higher Education

Academe Blog

MAY 7, 2025

BY ALAN SINGER On Thursday, April 17, I marched with New York City AAUP chapters and thousands of educators, students, workers, and allies from the arch in Washington Square Park to Foley Square in lower Manhattan in defense of higher education.

Administration

Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 15, 2025

Greg Abbott threatened to remove Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III over the institutions participation in an upcoming conference hosted by The PhD Project, which Abbott alleged violates the states ban on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives. This week, Texas Gov.

Policy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. These attacks on DEI have impacted higher education quite disastrously, Harper told Diverse. It has been an unnecessary barrier to higher education.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2025

The announcement, which implements parts of President Trump's Executive Order on "Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education," simultaneously lifts a moratorium on reviewing applications for new accrediting bodies. In a statement, Education Secretary Linda McMahon framed the policy change as promoting competition. "We

Department Of Education

Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 19, 2025

Eric Hoffer American higher education, once a ladder to opportunity, has become a vast machine of wealth extraction. This is the higher education racket : a sector that has turned away from its public mission and now operates with the logic of capital accumulation, enabled by deregulation, political influence, and privatization.

Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Trump as the 47th president of the United States on Tuesday, has signaled alarm across the k-12 and higher education landscape, leaving some educators worried that the former president will make good on his promise to eliminate the U.S. The election of Donald J.

Higher Education

University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

New York City schools have taken the same approach and said district policies and curriculum have not changed. Antioch University s chief said most of higher education wont comply with the memo unless federal law is changed. Western Michigan Universitys president told his campus to please proceed as usual.

Schooling

The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2025

With massive staff reductions, rollback of key civil rights regulations, and a stunning shift of student loan collection authority to the Small Business Administration, higher education institutions now face a regulatory landscape unlike any before. Transgender student protections under Title IX have been nullified.

Department Of Education

Higher Ed Dive

JULY 21, 2025

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University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

Columbia University has agreed to pay more than $220 million to the federal government and implement significant policy reforms to restore federal research funding that was suspended over allegations of campus antisemitism, the institution announced Wednesday.

Administration

The Guardian - Higher Education

MAY 10, 2025

As universities begin to push back on Trumps policies, Republican-led states are under threat on multiple fronts Days after the University of Michigan president, Santa Ono, announced that he was leaving his post to lead the University of Florida, his name was quietly removed on Wednesday from a letter signed by more than 600 university presidents denouncing (..)

University

University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Fresh polling data from approximately 100 college and university presidents in attendance at the Yale Higher Education Leadership Summit reveals that higher education leaders are no longer cowering as their schools are wrongly exploited as scapegoats for political grandstanding.

Liberal Arts

Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 4, 2025

The title Selling Armageddon captures a disturbing trend within American society—and particularly within the intersection of higher education, technology, and political ideology—where fear, fatalism, and anti-intellectualism have become not just cultural phenomena but profit centers. They aren't just predicting the end of the world.

Higher Education

Campus Sonar

MARCH 13, 2025

Actions that stop applications for income-driven student loan repayment plans , cut funding to public schools , eliminate Head Start and universal access to quality early childhood education , and limit knowledge of the broad spectrum of the human experience , will be catastrophic for higher education. Or you can resist.

Education

University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Higher education leaders everywhere are scrambling to understand how recent orders by President Donald Trump’s administration to forego initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion impact their institutions. Here are some institutions that have already taken steps to distance themselves from DEI.

College

Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 2, 2025

Recent developments in the higher education sector have seen significant federal interventions and institutional challenges impacting universities nationwide. University President Christopher Eisgruber emphasized Princeton’s commitment to combating antisemitism and defending academic freedom.

Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 4, 2025

In a stunning rebuke that underscores the escalating politicization of public higher education, the Florida State University Systems Board of Governors has rejected Santa Ono, the sole finalist to become president of the University of Florida, after hours of grilling over his past support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

University