Chat with AGB Board BotColleges and universities faced one of their most challenging years in 2025 from declining enrollment, dwindling federal funding and headline-grabbing struggles with the second Trump administration.
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A trustee asked me this month why so many smart presidents keep leaving before a campus learns their names. It isn’t a mystery. In each case the governing board was as central to the failure as the person who resigned.
Intercollegiate athletics is changing at a breathtaking pace. Recent profiles of Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti, in the New York Times and the Sports Business Journal, offer a useful illustration.
Colleges are paying presidents more than ever as boards compete to retain experienced leaders capable of navigating higher education’s headwinds.
The search for the University of Illinois System’s next leader remains on track to wrap up by the end of 2026, officials say.
Dropping birthrates and visa restrictions may explain part of the decline, but rising tuition costs and debt may be an even bigger factor
Dropping birthrates and visa restrictions may explain part of the decline, but rising tuition costs and debt may be an even bigger factor
Mexicali, Baja California a 21 de septiembre.- CETYS Universidad celebró este lunes 21 de septiembre 65 años de trayectoria y de consolidarse como una institución educativa referente a nivel nacional, destacándose por la alta calidad y el gran nivel de competitividad de sus programas académicos.
65 años transformando vidas, CETYS Universidad conecta a su comunidad con el mundo en su aniversario
Mexicali.- CETYS Universidad dio inicio a las celebraciones por su 65 aniversario con una ceremonia conmemorativa en el Auditorio Jesús Rodríguez Montes de Campus Mexicali, que reunió a cerca de 40 invitados especiales provenientes de una veintena de países, entre rectores y líderes universitarios, representantes de organismos de educación superior y aliados estratégicos.
Terry Fritter kicked off a Sept. 10 discussion about what community members want in the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s next chancellor by commenting on how familiar the process felt.
With FSU receiving funding for a new dental school and other Florida universities being rejected, efforts to establish a College of Dentistry highlight a broader issue about whether that would address the dental care shortage in the state.
BY GRANT MINCY Buried inside the Department of Education’s proposed Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) rule sits a single provision, § 602.23(j), that reads on the surface lik…