The board members who oversee America’s colleges and universities are still overwhelmingly white and male, though institutions have diversified their boards somewhat in recent years.
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At a moment when race is at the core of so many of higher education’s most intense and defining debates, the final authorities setting college and university policies still tend to be white men.
The pandemic era is likely to continue to broaden the gap between wealthier colleges and colleges that struggle financially, according to a recent report from bond-rating agency Fitch Ratings.
Since the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education complained that leaders of the Board of Regents had created a hostile workplace environment, the system has continued to operate with no outward signs of the strife taking place behind closed doors.
Higher education governing boards should stay appraised of rising cybersecurity threats and fund efforts to address them, according to guidance published Thursday by a leading professional organization.
If the Claremont School of Theology cannot sell its campus for close to market value, it will close. The Claremont Colleges, first in line to purchase the land, asserts it has already made a generous offer.
Three years after the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees was streamlined from 27 to 12 members through a controversial bill, the new board is being recognized for its accomplishments for the higher education system.
An American Association of University Professors survey finds over all, faculty representation is up over time, but faculty participation in presidential searches is down, as is full participation of part-time faculty members.
Campus and system leaders increasingly find themselves in impossible jobs, caught between competing demands from a governing board, often with a partisan agenda, and campus constituents who demand autonomy and are sometimes unaware of the institution’s financial constraints.
In his article, Reilly argues that the national conversation about the purpose of higher education has gone “dangerously off track.”
Turnover ticked up in many industries during the Covid-19 pandemic and higher education administrative offices were not immune.
What started as a series of garden-variety scandals at Kentucky State University has blossomed into a full-blown crisis, resulting in calls to close or merge the state’s only public historically Black college.