July 15, 2021 – 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. One national recruiting outfit, AGB Search, has become a magnet for such assignments.
On Monday, June 21, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) cannot bar institutions from providing education-related benefits to college athletes.
A new coalition of higher education organizations has formed to press the case for doubling the Pell Grant, the federal program that provides financial aid to low- and moderate-income students to attend college.
The University of Pennsylvania’s longest-serving president, Amy Gutmann, is set to leave the university after more than 17 years at its helm. It begs the question: who will replace her?
Howard University is in the midst of “an emerging, heated, family squabble.”
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work examining the legacy of slavery, Black students and faculty at UNC saw yet another example of the institution’s failure to welcome and support scholars and students of color.
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