As the universities grapple with the crisis of fee increases, some could soon have to search for new leaders to steer them into the future, as several prominent university vice-chancellors are set to step down from their posts next year, writes Roland Mpofu for The Sunday Independent. Read more...
Emerging Leaders and Managers Program
The Emerging Leaders and Managers Program (eLAMP) is designed for new and aspiring tertiary education managers to develop their skills, knowledge and capacities to lead and manage effectively in the rapidly changing tertiary education environment. More...
Usine du Futur : lancement d'une nouvelle communauté de leaders
Composée d'une centaine de dirigeants de PME industrielles, agricoles ou artisanales, la 2e communauté des leaders "Usine du Futur" a été lancée en décembre par la Région Grand Est. Elle doit notamment contribuer à faciliter l'intégration de nouvelles technologies et process au sein des entreprises régionales. Voir l'article...
The Relay Race of Leadership
Roger Martin advises new presidents that, while strong leaders surely make a difference, a college’s success can’t be attributed to any one person. Read more...
An aspirational model for leading universities
By John Aubrey Douglass. The concept of the public 'Flagship University' as a leading national or regional public university has its origins in the emergence of America’s network of public universities in the mid-1800s. It included a devotion to the English tradition of the residential college as well as the emerging Humboldtian model of independent research and graduate studies, in which academic research would, in turn, inform and shape teaching and build a stronger academic community. Read more...
College leaders identify the top IT challenges
Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Security, data management and governance, and next-gen enterprise were among the top networking concerns for CIOs at Educause this year. More...
Leading and Managing Change in Higher Education
The La MANCHE project is funded by Tempus IV programme and aims at promoting the modernisation of higher education in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The project is prompted by efforts to develop leadership skills and to introduce the culture of streamlined change management in academic settings in the context of national and international modernisation processes in higher education. More...
University leadership and the journey towards the entrepreneurial university
Higher Education (HE) systems around the world are experiencing many common challenges. Student participation rates are rising and at the same time public investment is reducing. The allocation of research funds is more competitive and also tied to requirements to demonstrate greater impact. Governments increasingly expect universities to be engines of innovation and economic growth. How are universities dealing with rising expectations, greater student numbers, increased competition, and reductions in state funding. More...
Leadership for a changing public-private higher education funding landscape
Higher education has been facing a demanding and complex financial context. The growth in student numbers, rethinking the role of the state and public services, financial austerity, that has been aggravated by a challenging economic reality since 2007, have contributed to declining institutional budgets from public sources and the rise in efforts towards income diversification. Diversification of funding sources has also gained a special significance in a context of accelerated international competition. Policy makers have been increasingly looking at universities as major actors in economic growth and innovation. More...
Leadership for a changing publicprivate higher education funding landscape
The theme retained for the In Focus section of this issue is the one selected for the 2017 Global Meeting of Association and following International Association of Universities. Both events will discuss the ‘ins and outs’ of a topic of high relevance to many universities all around the world.
To introduce some of the issues we are considering discussing in Ghana next year, I invited 9 researchers to share some of their reflexions and research outcomes relating to these issues. More...