What keeps HR administrators up at night

By Carol Patton. What tops the list of HR challenges at your college or university? Managing soaring health care costs? Maybe it’s faculty recruitment, succession planning, or shrinking budgets. Below, HR professionals from four different schools share their chief concerns, revealing why it’s getting more difficult to get a good night’s sleep. 
Overseas university 
Employment issues are a concern at most schools, but one of Duke University’s key challenges is employment related to international expansion, says Kyle Cavanaugh, vice president of administration. Duke is involved in a joint venture project with the city of Kunshan and Wuhan University in China to establish Duke Kunshan University. The university will open next fall with a handful of undergraduate and graduate programs. Read more...