Three years after the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees was streamlined from 27 to 12 members through a controversial bill, the new board is being recognized for its accomplishments for the higher education system.
An American Association of University Professors survey finds over all, faculty representation is up over time, but faculty participation in presidential searches is down, as is full participation of part-time faculty members.
Campus and system leaders increasingly find themselves in impossible jobs, caught between competing demands from a governing board, often with a partisan agenda, and campus constituents who demand autonomy and are sometimes unaware of the institution’s financial constraints.
In his article, Reilly argues that the national conversation about the purpose of higher education has gone “dangerously off track.”
Turnover ticked up in many industries during the Covid-19 pandemic and higher education administrative offices were not immune.
What started as a series of garden-variety scandals at Kentucky State University has blossomed into a full-blown crisis, resulting in calls to close or merge the state’s only public historically Black college.
The governing board of the Contra Costa Community College District in California reinstated Chancellor Bryan Reece last Thursday after putting him on administrative leave with pay two weeks ago.
Talk to most college leaders long enough, and they will eventually invoke their institutions’ strategic plans, sometimes as blueprints for specific improvements, other times as almost talismanic documents that will increase enrollment or diversity through their existence alone.
Experts point to several factors impacting the increase in presidential movement in recent months.
Mills College will merge with Northeastern University, after a vote by the Board of Trustees on Tuesday.
Students, faculty and staff raised concerns about issues ranging from employee relations to transparency in the process for addressing allegations of racist conduct on campus.
After their presidents died unexpectedly, Converse University and Saint Augustine’s University had to quickly install new leadership. Succession plans for such tragedies have become high priorities for college and university boards in the wake of the pandemic.
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