Chat with AGB Board BotOn Sept. 17, the day after Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announced plans to merge, a full-page ad appeared in Elon’s student newspaper, The Pendulum.
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Instead of a politics of divide and conquer, we can choose collaboration; instead of scarcity narratives, we can seek abundance and equity, Leonie H. Mattison writes.
Indiana University has faced unprecedented challenges from the government and internal conflict. But despite changes affecting the lives of tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff, the university continues to make most important decisions in secret and leaders routinely avoid interviews with informed journalists.
The sector has overwhelmingly panned Trump’s plan to give preferential treatment to universities that commit to his policies. So have some conservative leaders.
In the weeks since a pair of North Carolina universities announced plans to merge, scores of alumni have chimed in, including some offering pushback.
We’re rounding up a list of major events to help college leaders and administrators plan their calendars next year.
What’s in today’s Briefing? A professor who bashed Charlie Kirk gets his job back — for now. Scholars puzzle over the government’s grant policies. Which university is selling its president’s house? But first …
What’s in today’s Briefing? Jewish Americans unimpressed by antisemitism crackdowns. Red tape for Harvard. Reminders that some college presidents are millionaires.
Every day there are new headlines about higher education under fire. Legislators are trying to dictate who can be admitted, what can be taught, withhold approved funding, and even rewrite how boards operate.
In a speech at Hillsdale College on Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon presented what is perhaps the most detailed vision yet for the Trump administration’s approach to higher education.
U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon laid the most fleshed-out foundation for the Trump administration’s higher education agenda to date Monday, characterizing four-year universities as broken systems that fail to create leaders in an address at Hillsdale College.
What’s in today’s Briefing? Linda McMahon wants college to be hard. An early look at a plan to rework the liberal arts.