Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has announced its selection of 36 higher education professionals for the inaugural cohort of its Department Chair Leadership Institute (DCLI). The 2024 institute will consist of two cohorts. I am excited to be part of this new venture at AASCU.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

This was her experience at various institutions where she worked before becoming a president herself. Her ascension to the presidency, following Richardsons resignation in 2024, demonstrates the importance of institutional pipelines and succession planning. Often, I see these leaders thrive at another institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

As the largest public urban university system in the nation, CUNY had a real opportunity to make a change. In 2023, CUNY s Board of Trustees charged the Universitys leadership including myself to fix the transfer system. Alvero is the interim executive vice chancellor and university provost at The City University of New York.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2017

Effective University leadership traits are close to superhero level – the skills, knowledge, and experience required to be an effective leader of a higher education institution are unlike that of nearly any other profession. Traditionally, universities have looked for candidates who were steeped in the world of academia.

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University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

Based on publicly available information, physical and sexual abuse at Northwestern University was a festering problem that administrators failed to acknowledge. For generations, sexual abuse in America was normalized by culture, institutions, family and tradition. Do not wait for the symptoms of sexual abuse to appear on your campus.

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University Business

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Included in this year’s best volumes are books on HBCUs, standardized testing, free speech and institutional leadership in a time of crisis. The Resilient University: How Purpose and Inclusion Drive Student Success, by Freeman A. Hrabowski, III with Peter H. Henderson, Lynne C. Schaefer & Philip J.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The success of your institution depends on having a clear, data-driven view of what’s happening across your campus. From student retention to faculty performance, keeping an eye on the right metrics is what separates thriving institutions from those that struggle to keep up.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities. This is the first no-confidence vote in the institution’s 50-year history, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Even so, Morgan has so far kept a steady hand.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Since its inception in 2012, College Greenlight has emerged as a critical platform addressing these barriers, offering a unique bridge between students, counselors, community-based organizations (CBOs), and higher education institutions. One such initiative is its collaboration with institutions that meet 100% of demonstrated financial need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) has selected 15 minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to receive the MUREP Partnership Learning Annual Notification (MPLAN) award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 23, 2024

He is a founding co-editor of “The New Black Studies” series at the University of Illinois Press. He is also a founding co-director of the Academic Leadership Institute, a partnership between Washington University and the University of Michigan that supports the development of academic leaders committed to advancing diversity and inclusion.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2025

It will demand a full reckoning with the systemic barriers learners face and a coordinated effort by institutions, policymakers, and communities to make education more affordable, accessible, transparent, and aligned with workforce needs. Unlike in 2008, today’s policy and institutional landscapes are better prepared.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

College and university leadership would be well served to make investment in a retention strategy both an immediate and ongoing priority. As noted in this report, leaders throughout an institution must meaningfully focus on all of these challenges and opportunities every single day.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Roy Cooper in November to address concerns that the University of North Carolina (UNC) system’s Board of Governors (BOG) did not fully represent the racial, geographic, and political diversity of the state and that politics are impacting policies and appointments throughout the system. This article was published in our September 2023 issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Sun frequently gets asked by administrators at his institution to weigh in on thorny issues they’re debating. The report doesn’t explore the question of whether institutions should expand their online offerings, or the all-important question of how to go about going online in a way that furthers their educational mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 19, 2023

Community college leaders with extensive experience in and knowledge of the community college serve as one of the most diverse faculties in a national university leadership program. Other program effects that contributed to participants’ increased capacity for community-building included increased institutional knowledge (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Succession planning is paramount in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as it can play a critical role in preserving these institutions' legacy, values, and unique contributions. It is a proactive strategy that ensures a seamless transition of leadership positions when key personnel, such as presidents, depart.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

He is a proven scholar who also has been elevated to leadership roles at major public universities in three states, including at Kentucky's flagship institution. It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2024

The university pledged that throughout this process, it has no plans to reduce need- merit-based aid for current students and those admitted through fall 2024, reduce retirement benefits or institute furloughs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 26, 2023

I've not read Universities on Fire yet, but I hope that book will serve as a higher education-specific companion piece to The Great Displacement. Those in university leadership roles who read The Great Displacement will inevitably ask, "what does climate change mean for my institution and the broader postsecondary ecosystem?"

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WCET Frontiers

APRIL 13, 2023

Telling online students that they belong is not enough; institutions must proactively create opportunities for interactions that foster connections with peers, faculty, and the institution as a whole. How an institution helps students to feel a sense of belonging can take on various forms.

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HEPI

AUGUST 22, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by two anonymous professors at Russell Group institutions.* The basics are clear: long-term underfunding of HE, a marketized higher education system, and university leaderships that value the generation of a financial surplus above all else. But the sector’s problems in fact run much deeper than this.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. Students navigate housing and food insecurity, transportation issues, and other limitations to access.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 5, 2023

As a united front, this group is sharing its expertise and calling on institutions to forcefully oppose efforts by public officials to censor and stifle free expression on college campuses. Overall, Hutchens feels university leadership may have initially tried to avoid upsetting politicians, afraid of causing greater harm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

My tenure at institutions such as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Middle Tennessee State University, and Western Illinois University, and more recently, Central State University, has been marked by efforts to address the pressing issues of our time.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Bloomfield College will become part of Montclair State University, the institutions announced Wednesday, formalizing a merger that had been in the works for months since Montclair State stepped up to help the financially struggling Bloomfield. The two campuses will soon move forward as one institution. A Plea for Help.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

DECEMBER 18, 2022

But beyond the hype and enthusiasm there are enormous strategic policy decisions to be made, by governments, institutions, faculty and individual students. What the emerging fascination about AI is delivering an accelerated pace to the self-reflective processes that all university leadership should be undertaking continuously.

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HEPI

MAY 16, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Adam Doyle , Head of Business Engagement and Employability at the University of Derby Much of the focus upon university leadership has historically been within institutions. The coherence of desired outcomes can become muddled when exploring the detail.

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University Business

JUNE 3, 2024

(Photo by: Robert Knopes/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) “With deepest sadness, we must confirm that University of the Arts will close on June 7, 2024,” university leadership said Sunday.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Institutions are announcing enrollment upswings before official numbers are out. On the other hand, institutions that are primarily black- and Hispanic-serving saw a 9% increase in FAFSA applications. But very few institutions feel safe right now. ” Many of them, interestingly, are going to public four-year institutions.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

The playbook for any given institution’s alliances can vary wildly. For example, Lewis University and St. Two weeks ago, Drexel University and Salus University decided to explore an “affiliation.” “I’ve been impressed with the quality of presidential leadership,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2023

Based on her extensive years in university leadership, Montgomery suggested that younger people look for mentors in many places, of many kinds. There are many different types of mentors,” Montgomery said. “I I would encourage younger people to speak to individuals.

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HEPI

APRIL 25, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Helen Laville , Provost at Kingston University , and is part of a series of HEPI / NCEE blogs on entrepreneurial leadership. In my last role as a PVC Education, I instituted a series of meetings with the departments across the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2024

But it’s his commentary on the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that is particularly poignant, as he reminds his readers of the mission of these storied institutions and the significant role that they have played in cultivating the nation’s Black middle class. “In He went on to earn a Ph.D.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One attendee said he now regretted how he had framed the DET when asking university leadership to adopt the online test. “At At the start of the pandemic, like a lot of institutions, we kind of hurriedly accepted the Duolingo test and we got this through in record time,” he said.

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HEPI

MAY 9, 2023

Within higher education, it’s a theme that many university leaders have embraced. Why wouldn’t this be central to what universities are about? Many of us were set up as civic institutions, are key anchors within our towns and cities, and contribute in multiple ways to local economies, communities, culture and much more.

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