Mills College will merge with Northeastern University, after a vote by the Board of Trustees on Tuesday.
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Students, faculty and staff raised concerns about issues ranging from employee relations to transparency in the process for addressing allegations of racist conduct on campus.
After their presidents died unexpectedly, Converse University and Saint Augustine’s University had to quickly install new leadership. Succession plans for such tragedies have become high priorities for college and university boards in the wake of the pandemic.
A letter on HBCU governance from Dr. Charlie Nelms, HBCU advocate and chancellor emeritus at North Carolina Central University.
Some supporters of the college say the financial situation may not be so dire and have pursued legal and political means to slow an acquisition by Northeastern.
A year later, with COVID-19 loosening its grip on campuses, it’s not surprising to find campus financial managers in a better place.
A panel of experts advised that diversity officers should be a part of every major conversation happening at an institution, and that changes made in an effort to improve equity should be made fully transparent to the public.
Pennsylvania is just the latest state to come up with plans to merge several universities into a few.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ tangle with the University of North Carolina seems to many yet another reason to dismiss the tenure system as the preserve of a white, male hierarchy intolerant of divergent views and inattentive to the need for diversity.
July 15, 2021 – As the pandemic begins to subside in the U.S. and organizations collectively begin to get back on their feet, colleges and universities across the country are opening searches that, if all goes to plan, will allow high-profile leaders to take them into a new era of fundraising, digitalization, sports and, increasingly the case, globalization – not to mention a pandemic and post-pandemic era. One national recruiting outfit, AGB Search, has become a magnet for such assignments.
A new coalition of higher education organizations has formed to press the case for doubling the Pell Grant, the federal program that provides financial aid to low- and moderate-income students to attend college.
The University of Pennsylvania’s longest-serving president, Amy Gutmann, is set to leave the university after more than 17 years at its helm. It begs the question: who will replace her?