One university leader’s recent departure highlights the importance of understanding shared governance, especially for those new to higher ed…
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Kaplan, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities Launch Public Dialogue on Preparing College Students for the Workforce…
IOWA CITY — As the University of Iowa prepares to embark on the arduous task of finding its next president in the midst of a pandemic, Iowa’s Board of Regents acknowledges it’s in uncharted territory…
An aging cohort of college presidents, some of whom postponed retirements in the spring, could be contributing to a flurry of departure plans announced this fall…
When Republicans seized control of both chambers of North Carolina’s General Assembly, in 2010, for the first time in more than a century, they quickly set about remaking a politically moderate state that Barack Obama had carried in the presidential election just two years earlier…
A Chronicle investigation explores the perils of politicized trusteeship and offers an unprecedented analysis of how and why it happens…
Now more than ever, colleges and universities are tasked with affirming their unique value to students, families, and the public…
New survey data from the American College Health Association suggest colleges are decreasing their funding to health services, keeping residence halls open and varying widely with regard to testing…
Colleges and universities in Indiana and across the country have already warned students and their parents they won’t receive tuition refunds if campuses are forced to close again because of COVID-19…
The Washington, D.C.-based search firm enters the fall with a wide range of assignments, looking to fill every role from president to provost to a director of institutional planning, assessment, effectiveness and research for an array of universities and colleges around the country. Let’s take a closer look…
A singular focus on the current crisis won’t do, higher education leaders say. Those in power at colleges and universities must find time to prepare their institutions for an unsettled future that looks very different from the old status quo…
Bulletin: A bunch of students brought back to college got together to drink beer on the quad…