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KU Chancellor Doug Girod was among four university chancellors and presidents who helped U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon draft an open letter asking U.S. universities to publicly commit to seven “statements of principle,” including hiring faculty “of all relevant perspectives.”
“If at first you don’t succeed . . .” The Trump administration is at it again.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s letter contains some similarities to a compact offered to and rejected by a small group of schools last year.
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon called on college leaders to publicly commit to major policy reforms by the end of the year, ranging from adopting clear admissions criteria to hiring faculty who have a range of perspectives.
Ten months after the Trump administration failed to win widespread buy-in for its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” it has posted a new, seemingly gentler version for colleges to endorse.
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Monday urged colleges to publicly commit to sweeping policy reforms by the end of the year, calling for greater transparency, clearer admissions policies and broader faculty viewpoints to rebuild public trust in higher education.
The U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to university presidents and governing boards on Monday asking them to publicly commit, by the end of the year, to a series of changes long championed by the Trump administration — a notably softer approach than the compact nine universities rejected last fall.
A while back (a few years now), I called a president whose institution I admired. They had something we do not have.
During a board meeting Tuesday, regents of the state-owned school in Las Vegas, N.M., voted 3-2 to hire an outside firm to search for the institution’s next president — who will be the third person to hold the position since 2023.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has officially kicked off a national search for the U of I System’s 21st president, unveiling a detailed leadership profile and hiring an executive search firm to scout the field.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has launched a national search for the system’s next president, releasing a leadership profile and aiming to finish the process by the end of 2026 after current president Tim Killeen steps down in June 2027.