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Let’s look outside academia for university leaders

LSE Higher Education Blog

The recruitment of university leaders, or more specifically vice-chancellors and their equivalent, is an opaque process. Yet championing academics as university leaders assumes that university leaders persist with their academic identities. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative.

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Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morgan State University, Maryland's largest Historically Black University, is taking decisive action to address a concerning trend: the steady decline in Black male Dr. David K. University President Dr. David K. Wilson enrollment.

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Women presidents on the rise at R1 institutions, report finds

Higher Ed Dive

But representation for women of color at the top tier of university leadership has not kept pace.

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5 Reasons Why University Leadership Roles Should Be Open to Those Without a Ph.D.

Inside Higher Ed

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. We have many examples of university leaders who came from traditional disciplinary backgrounds.

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Understanding the Social Change Model of Leadership (SCM): Igniting Students’ Academic Development P

The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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Q&A: Retiring Maryville University President Recalls Early Connectivity Efforts

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

When Mark Lombardi took over as president of Missouris Maryville University in 2007, a communications and digital transformation was knocking at the sectors door.

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Lack of diversity in professional services leadership continues to be a problem

Wonkhe

As part of a project on the lack of ethnic diversity in university leadership, Monika Nangia asked professional services colleagues to share their stories. Here’s what they said The post Lack of diversity in professional services leadership continues to be a problem appeared first on Wonkhe.