Attention this week turns to the UW Board of Regents, which finds itself at an interesting inflection point in the political power struggle over control of the University of Wisconsin System with the board holding its first contested election in nearly a decade.
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure bid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came to a screeching halt earlier this year. Professors had presumed that Hannah-Jones — who has been recognized with a Pulitzer Prize and a fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for her incisive reporting on race in America — would have a slam-dunk case.
The demographic cliff we have been anticipating since the drop in births with the 2008 recession now has a younger sibling — the COVID-19 cliff is coming with another deep drop in recent births
This op-ed argues that university boards are really in control of many core functions on college and university campuses.
Candidates to fill Evergreen State College’s presidency cited personal reasons for withdrawing, leaving college officials scratching their heads about what to do differently when the search restarts.
As Covid-19 surged across the country last spring, leaders at Wofford College considered five possible scenarios for the institution’s finances in the fall of 2020. At one end of the spectrum, the small private liberal-arts college in South Carolina would welcome close to its typical number of students back to campus and suffer minimal disruption.
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.
Nevada’s governor proposed a bill earlier this month that would form a committee to study how to fund and govern the state’s community colleges to better meet its workforce needs.
The new bill stops short of an earlier proposal from Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, who called for creating an independent community college system during his State of the State address in January.
The University of Iowa Presidential Search Committee could not ask questions relating to a candidate’s race, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, physical disability, health, age, or familial status during the search process to find the UI’s next top leader.
Five public colleges and universities in New Mexico are teaming up to start a nonprofit organization to share back-office services, academic programs and technology — and ideally lower each school’s operating costs.
Donald P. Lofe will soon hold the fourth and fifth titles he’s taken since first being affiliated with Westminster College more than four decades ago: president and chief transformation officer.
The third of four finalists to become the University of Iowa’s 22nd president is Georgia State University’s Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Wendy F. Hensel — who worked as a private attorney and judicial clerk before launching her career in academia.
