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During the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work arrangements emerged as the new normal, even for certain positions in higher education. But those may not include the college presidency.
If there’s a new “hot seat” in higher-education administration, it might burn hottest at the top. The job of public-college system head has seen a string of abrupt departures, board battles, and contentious searches.
Failed presidential searches are a nightmare for all involved. For the university, it means going back to the drawing board. For the candidate, it’s time and energy spent in vain.
On the Sunday before last Christmas, a ransom note suddenly appeared in computer printer trays at Lincoln College in Illinois.
UW-Green Bay Vice Chancellor for University Inclusivity & Student Affairs, Corey A. King, is one of 25 leaders who will engage with the AGB Institute for Leadership & Governance’s specialized curriculum of symposia, workshops, and one-on-one mentoring.
The search process for Emporia State University’s new president is moving smoothly, according to the search committee’s chairman.
The Nevada System of Higher Education just lost its third chancellor in five years. Melody Rose, hired less than two years ago, will get a severance pay of $600,000 after a board vote last week.
Tensions between state lawmakers and the University of South Carolina‘s Board of Trustees hit a boiling point over the past week with the introduction in the legislature of a bill that would dismiss every board member and cut its membership nearly in half.
Governing boards must actively work to ensure fair student outcomes, say two leaders at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges.
With accreditation under intensified scrutiny from state legislators and other quarters, two national associations have issued a joint statement reminding governing boards of the importance of higher education’s quality assurance system and the role they should play in it.
In 2009, two nonprofits released a report on accreditation and governing boards amid worries about academic quality and accountability in higher ed. More than a dozen years later, they’ve updated it in response to a slew of new pressures that include threats to colleges’ independence.