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Zoraya Hightower opened an email May 24 to disappointment: Her campaign to secure a seat on Yale University’s board of trustees as an alumni fellow had ended in defeat.
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When Kentucky State begins classes for the 2021 fall semester, students will be on campus.
TUCKED INSIDE the state budget proposal passed unanimously last week by the Senate is an odd provision directing the chair of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees to invite members of the Legislature “to appear on the agenda for a regular or special meeting of the board.”
The state’s Republican leaders have a strong hand in the public system’s workings — a dynamic observers argue it must break free of.
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.
On Tuesday, May 11, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it is providing funding for students and institutions under the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund III
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.