Apr 7	Bob Jones Board Chair Quits Amid Conflict With President Last week, Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit announced his resignation . He will leave office at the end of the academic year in May. His resignation came only a few months after the board re-elected him. He left amid a conflict over Tit...
Apr 7	Marquette U facility promotes physical mental health Image: Marquette University will open its new wellness and recreation center in January 2025, joining a growing number of higher ed institutions that have combined mental and physical health within a single facility. The $80 million pro...
Apr 7	Survey: What flexibility means to college students Image: Many students think more flexibility on classroom deadlines, attendance and participation would boost their academic success, a recent Student Voice survey found. About a quarter of students also see strict attendance or participation...
Apr 7	Counseling centers triage students by mental health needs Image: Hannah Nunez’s job at Northern Arizona University requires her to be a few different things at once: an advocate, a compassionate ear, a repository of information about campus resources. As a behavioral health coordinator, part ...
Apr 7	Historic faculty pay increase still beaten by inflation Image: While this academic year saw the largest one-year increase in full-time faculty members’ average salaries in over three decades, that still wasn’t enough to stop their real wages from falling due to inflation, the American...
Apr 7	Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality? Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of...
Apr 7	Biden admin to block blanket bans on trans student athletes Image: The Biden administration would prohibit blanket bans that “categorically” bar transgender students from participating in the sport consistent with their gender identity under a proposed amendment to federal civil rights la...
Apr 7	One Size Doesn’t Fit All: An AI Approach to Healthier Eating AI has been getting mixed press lately, but can it help us become healthier? In today’s Academic Minute, Johns Hopkins University’s Kimia Ghobadi considers algorithms and diets. Ghobadi is a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department of ...
Apr 7	How top college leaders should consider conference invitations (opi... As a higher ed leader, requests to attend conferences can be incessant and overwhelming, but they often warrant serious consideration, writes Maggy Ralbovsky. Job Tags: EXECUTIVE POSITIONS Ad keywords: administrators Show on Jobs site:...
Apr 7	American U Students Petition for Narcan After Overdose Hundreds of American University students and alumni have signed a petition demanding that Narcan , a brand of naloxone , be made available at all dormitories on campus, WUSA9 News reported. The petition follows an overdose on campus of a nonstuden...
Apr 7	San Francisco State Investigates Professor for Showing Image of Mu... San Francisco State University is investigating a professor, Maziar Behrooz, for showing an image of the prophet Muhammad in a course last fall on the history of Islam, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression . FIRE has cr...
Apr 7	Eastern Illinois U Faculty, Advisers Begin Strike Faculty members and academic support professionals began striking Thursday at another public Illinois university, after fellow faculty walked out at Chicago State University Monday . The newly striking Eastern Illinois University chapter of the Un...
Apr 7	Anti-CRT Measures Exploded Last Year, Report Finds Lawmakers across the country tried to enact 563 measures to restrict the teaching of “critical race theory” from 2021 to 2022, according to a new report from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. Of those measures a...
Apr 7	An AI Approach to Healthier Eating: Academic Minute Today on the Academic Minute: Kimia Ghobadi, a John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, explains how AI might help us become healthier....
Apr 7	Birmingham-Southern Board Votes to Remain Open Following months of closure talks related to ongoing financial issues, the Board of Trustees at Birmingham-Southern College voted unanimously Wednesday to remain open, AL.com reported . The private Alabama college has made appeals to state and loc...
Apr 7	Rural academics are forced to code-switch (opinion) I—Samantha—vividly remember one of my first appointments as a writing consultant, where a scene played out that would repeat itself weekly in the years I worked there. A student brought in a rough draft of an argumentative essay and, a...
Apr 7	With proposed TPS changes, Biden admin overreached (opinion) The Biden administration is best known for one thing: vastly overreaching its authority and then acting surprised when it gets pushback. On Feb. 15, the U.S. Department of Education issued a sweeping policy change through informal guidance th...
Apr 7	Highlights From a Transfer Report Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean The Office of the Secretary of Higher Education for New Jersey made public its most recent report on the state of transfer in the state . Some of it is a bit inside baseball, but it contained a f...
Apr 6	3 Questions for Todd Nicolet, Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong... Blog: Learning Innovation At the most recent edX/2U University Partner Advisory Council meeting , we had the privilege of spending time with Dr. Todd Nicolet . Todd is the Vice Provost for Digital and Lifelong Learning at UNC. In our convers...
May 24	How Peer Review Could Improve Our Teaching It’s time to take a formative — not punitive — approach to evaluating what we do in the college classroom. By Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, Ann Austin, Gabriela Cornejo Weaver, and Noah D. Finkelstein It’s time to take a formative — not punitive — app...
May 23	12 Leadership Lessons Based on 25 Years of Being Led We may not want to be administrators, but we do want our leaders to succeed. By William F. McComas We may not want to be administrators, but we do want our leaders to succeed.
May 18	What's Behind the Surge in No-Confidence Votes? By Megan Zahneis Presidential turnover and faculty retrenchment have led to a failure in shared governance.
May 18	Admin 101: How to Keep Partner Hires Happy (Even When They Split Up) Retaining academic couples is less time-consuming than recruiting them but should not be left to chance. By David D. Perlmutter Retaining academic couples is less time-consuming than recruiting them but should not be left to chance.
May 16	Loan-Forgiveness Debate Rekindles an Old Question: Why Does College... The answers aren't so simple. By Lee Gardner The answers aren't so simple.
May 16	The Provost Reported the President's Husband for Harassment. Now It... At Sonoma State, the provost reported the president's husband for harassment. Now it's complicated. By Jack Stripling At Sonoma State, a president faces calls to resign over her response to allegations against her husband. The story is even strang...
May 16	The Airport Interview Is Dead The days when it was routine to organize a multiday, in-person parade of initial candidates for leadership posts are over. By Zach P. Messitte The days when it was routine to organize a multiday, in-person parade of initial candidates for leadersh...
May 13	How the Hiring of a Campus President Landed Maine's Chancellor — an... By Megan Zahneis Two no-confidence votes in an incoming president's past weren't disclosed to a search committee. Now some key players in that search have received no-confidence votes of their own.
Jun 29	All Workers Deserve Access to Paid Family and Medical Leave A paid family and medical leave program must be national, comprehensive, and inclusive to meet the needs of all workers, their families, and the economy. The post All Workers Deserve Access to Paid Family and Medical Leave appeared first on Center...
Jun 28	Event Recap: Labor Unions and the Future David Madland's new book explains how to design a new labor system for today's economy with enhanced rights for workers, incentives for union membership, and greater sectoral bargaining. The post Event Recap: Labor Unions and the Future appeared f...
Jun 28	How the American Families Plan Would Benefit LGBTQI+ Households The AFP’s robust investments in U.S. families and workers would support LGBTQI+ people. The post How the American Families Plan Would Benefit LGBTQI+ Households appeared first on Center for American Progress .
Jun 25	A New Chapter in U.S.-South Korea Relations: Seoul Embraces a Broad... While domestic constraints make it unlikely that South Korea will pursue an overtly competitive policy toward China, Seoul began a new chapter in U.S.-ROK relations at the summit by embracing a broader role in regional affairs. The post A New Chap...
Jun 24	LGBTQ People of Color Encounter Heightened Discrimination A nationally representative survey conducted in June 2020 by the Center for American Progress highlights that LGBTQ people of color are more likely than white LGBTQ individuals to encounter discrimination in a variety of settings. The post LGBTQ P...
Jun 23	Congress Can’t Miss This Chance To Close the Biggest Tax Loophole f... ProPublica revealed that billionaires are paying virtually no tax. Congress can address the problem by adopting President Biden’s proposals on capital gains and stepped-up basis. The post Congress Can’t Miss This Chance To Close the Biggest Tax Lo...
Jun 22	Millions of Families Are Struggling to Address Child Care Disruptions While families of all types are experiencing child care disruptions, the tools available to address them vary significantly across demographics. The post Millions of Families Are Struggling to Address Child Care Disruptions appeared first on Cente...
Jun 21	4 Ways the U.S. Government Can Strengthen Refugee Resettlement for ... President Joe Biden’s executive actions create a framework for protecting LGBTQI people fleeing persecution, but agencies must act to implement these safeguards. The post 4 Ways the U.S. Government Can Strengthen Refugee Resettlement for LGBTQI Pe...
Jun 16	A New Framework for DHS To Meet Today’s Challenges What America needs from the Department of Homeland Security today is different from when it was founded nearly 20 years ago. The post A New Framework for DHS To Meet Today’s Challenges appeared first on Center for American Progress .
Jun 15	Resources From the State House to the White House: Progress on Clim... State, local, and tribal leadership is laying a road map for federal action on climate, good jobs, and justice. The post Resources From the State House to the White House: Progress on Climate, Justice, and Jobs appeared first on Center for America...
Dec 22	Surge in Foreign Students May Be Crowding Americans Out of Elite Co... A major increase in international enrollment in recent years has intensified the competition for entry to America's top private colleges and universities, as ever-growing numbers of applicants angle for the limited supply of seats. That tension is...
Dec 22	Ending Extracurricular Privilege (The Atlantic) One day in the summer of 2015, I sat in a small conference room in Tribeca, watching the reality show Dance Moms with Richard Weissbourd, a renowned Harvard psychologist. To Weissbourd, shows like Dance Moms are a symptom of a broader societal mal...
Dec 22	Why This Small College in Iowa Is Going Global (Washington Post) Grinnell College had a problem last spring. Enrollment for the incoming class of 2020 was falling well short of the target of 440 freshmen, and the college had exhausted its wait list of domestic applicants. So the esteemed liberal arts school in ...
Dec 22	Yale Set For Biggest Expansion in 40 Years (Washington Post) The bell tower looming over a bustling seven-acre construction site here on Prospect Street signals a major development for Yale University: the imminent debut of its first new residential colleges in a half-century. When Franklin and Murray colle...
Dec 22	The Plague of Early Decision - Commentary (New York Times) Columnist Frank Bruni writes: As the moment of judgment neared, they barely slept, convinced that their very futures were on the line. Dread consumed them. Panic overwhelmed them. I don't mean Americans awaiting the Electoral College's validation ...
Dec 22	Donald Trump Attack On Education Is Imminent - Commentary (WBUR Rad... Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance, risk management and capital markets at Boston University Questrom School of Business and is a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, writes: The sustained greatness of America -- its economic and social fabric...
Dec 22	Antioch College Cuts Costs, Jobs (Yellow Spring News, OH) For the first time since reopening to students in 2011, Antioch College is reducing its budget, a move college leaders say is necessary to bring expenses in line with revenues that have grown more slowly than expected. Antioch College President To...
Dec 22	Changes Coming to NAICU Headline News Service Today As part of an ongoing update and relaunch of our organization's website and other electronic resources, NAICU is revamping its Headline News Service effective today, Thursday, Dec. 22. Beginning in the New Year, NAICU's news service will become a ...
Dec 21	To Save Themselves, Small Colleges Offer Lifeline to Their Hometown... Phillip and Stephanie Mastin have lived all of their 40-plus years in this small manufacturing town set amid farmers' fields. Neither, though, had ever attended a lecture or a basketball game at the private college near their home. But last spring...
Dec 21	What Is In and What Is Out for Colleges as Trump Takes Office (Chro... If you're a college leader who feels micromanaged by federal regulations, a university trustee who thinks that the U.S. Department of Education has been overly intrusive in overseeing colleges' handling of sexual-assault and discrimination cases, ...
Dec 21	A Generational Schism Over Gay Rights Appears at Evangelical Colleg... Evangelical Christians, who proved a powerful voting bloc for Donald Trump, are often viewed as a monolithic group. But a generational rift is appearing on Christian college campuses and among student groups, as students are diverging from profess...
Dec 21	Is Distance Ed Rule DOA? (Inside Higher Ed) The U.S. Department of Education, with a month to go until the transition of power, has finalized a rule that clarifies how colleges become authorized to offer online programs to students in other states -- an effort in the works since the first y...
Dec 21	Presidents Sign Climate Change Letter to Trump (Inside Higher Ed) The leaders of nearly 200 colleges and universities have signed an open letter calling on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and members of Congress to support climate research, investment in a low-carbon economy and the Paris Agreement on climate ...