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As governing boards prepare for their midyear meetings, I’m challenging all board members to level up their advocacy efforts on behalf of their institutions and higher education as a whole.

Trustees of the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning continued deliberations behind closed doors Thursday, March 19 in their ongoing search to name a new president for Jackson State University.

For seven years, the University of St. Thomas ran in the red. Operating losses piled up.

I was quoted in a column in October 2024 when I stated the Penn State Board of Trustees and university leadership had lost their way. Sadly, it has only gotten much, much worse.

Gateway Technical College’s search for its next president just hit a turning point.

Scholars, sitting presidents, practitioners, and higher education leaders gathered virtually for the Black Leadership Across Campuses Summit, focusing on what organizers called the “health and well-being” of historically Black colleges and universities at a pivotal and politically turbulent moment for the sector.

By the numbers, every Ohio State University president in the past two decades left the school better than they found it.