Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 5, 2023

“I wanted people to feel that we’re human. ” Made up of observations on everyday minutiae and life at a university, his tweets are both simple and profound. That’s water to flush toilets [when] Lavrov’s ‘humane’ country bombs us and our water pump system stops working.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

By Maggie Hicks Illustration by The Chronicle; Photos by iStock George Mason University's president and spokesman gave The Chronicle a rare glimpse into the process they took to respond to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

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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. While the technology can enhance students preparation for the future, it must be combined with human interaction, Jones says.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University will create the Detroit Center for Black Studies and recruit 30 new humanities faculty. The faculty-led, multidisciplinary center will connect Black Studies faculty from institutions across the state of Michigan, the university announced in December. The Andrew W.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 30, 2024

Discussion of APUS's rebranding effort centered around being "Digital by Nature, Human by Design," showcasing how institutions can position themselves at the forefront of the digital revolution in education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. As tuition continues to rise, so does the question of return on investment for students and their parents, which inevitably targets less lucrative fields of study like the humanities. Dr. Nicholas B. Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks.

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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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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

Note: This episode was recorded on May 21, two days before the third round of Congress’ antisemitism hearings featuring college and university presidents. You can listen to this episode at any time on Spotify , Podbean , Amazon Music , Apple Podcasts or down below.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Administrators say they’re responding to a budget shortfall, declining enrollment, flagging student interest in humanities courses, and pressure from parents who want their kids to be prepared for good-paying jobs after graduation. Are we going to revert back to ‘normal?’

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

So far, given national surveys of faculty political allegiance, the humanities and social sciences tilt very far to blue rather than red. One should ask dissenters why the possibility that scholars with conservative or libertarian viewpoints might join the faculty is so terrifying.

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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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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

MARCH 1, 2023

New York City comptroller Brad Lander sent a letter to Yeshiva University president Ari Berman on Monday urging him to recognize the YU Pride Alliance, an LGBTQ student group that sued the university in 2021 for failing to do so. A New York appeals court ruled in December that the university must recognize the club.

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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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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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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

While rich in insight, the scholarship on Black faculty and staff retention has often been segregated from public discussions that university presidents, futurists, and higher education researchers are having about institutional transformation in the Academy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

“To the extent that you allow the governor or the legislature to set the terms when it comes to what you teach, how you teach it, and how you care for your people, then you have lost your soul as a university.” Tania Tetlow, president of Fordham University Tetlow thought that a measured tone was the key to getting a message across.

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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. And it's really about our humanity. Co-Host: Bridget Burns , CEO, University Innovation Alliance. Disruptive Innovation and Higher Ed.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

In many ways, the experiences of college presidents prepare them well to enable institutions beyond the academy to engage the current environment effectively. Why Are Presidents Moving to Cultural Institutions? The voice of the American university president as a public intellectual was once a well-recognized force.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

For them, college is not just a process of learning job skills or imbibing information, but an highly impactful experience in human development. Colleges and universities transmit knowledge, yes, but they also inculcate values. Some valorize business and commerce, others the arts and humanities.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 4, 2023

A positive trend she highlighted is that many university presidents maintained their commitment to international education during and after the pandemic, noting the increase in membership of the Presidents’ Alliance specifically.

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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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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.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Every system that organizes humans for a purpose is a system of care. The two core elements in LeBlanc’s humanistic management are humane organizational structures and humane practices of managers. One such human is Mel Conway, a software engineer. These are the systems he studied and he knows, respectively.

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2023

The university’s drastic decisions come on the heels of a report last July that uncovered a $45 million budget deficit—which could grow to $70 million in the next five years. The budget gap and its ensuing changes are primarily driven by declining enrollment, a shocking misfortune for the state’s only R1 university.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 30, 2023

FIRE officials are asking for more clarity on the incident and how the university is handling it. “Reading a book on a college campus should not prompt formal administrative intervention,” a FIRE program officer wrote in a letter to Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne. The text is described by the U.S.

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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 full audio.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

What’s more, many of the essays had obvious red flags for AI generation: outdated facts about the cost of tuition, quotes from prior university presidents presented as current presidents, fictional professors and named student organizations that don’t exist.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Simmons, who is president emerita of Smith College and Brown University, currently serves as senior adviser to the president of Harvard University on engagement with historically Black colleges and universities, among other national higher ed leadership positions. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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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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 full audio.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

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. Amid the change, however, the private Roman Catholic University has proven it’s not sacrificing its respect for the humanities.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MARCH 28, 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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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. We've heard pretty consistently that students are tired of the assumptions about what their family situation is.

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