Lorelle Espinosa, Hollie Chessman and Lindsay Wayt of ACE’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy on how presidents have responded to recent student protests and demands for campus diversity and inclusion, the latest post in a series. More...

A new Center for American Progress analysis of College Scorecard data shows college completion is on the rise, perhaps most notably for low-income students. More...

Links between the broader social context of what is happening off campus and students’ on-campus activism have long been a means for students to personalize, contextualize and make sense of what it means to pursue social change. Below are selected examples of these connections from Colonial times through the 1950s. More...

ACE Leadership Vice President Lynn M. Gangone writes about her journey to Saudi Arabia, where she is participating in the first Women’s Leadership Forum sponsored by Academic Leadership Center, part of the Ministry of Education and housed at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. More...

ACE’s recent survey of chief academic officers (CAOs) found that the majority of CAOs want more training in fundraising, followed by more professional development in budgeting and financial management and assistance with governing board relations. More...

Most higher education leaders would agree that our nation’s colleges and universities have a responsibility to promote diversity and inclusion. More...

Last fall, students protested on college and university campuses nationwide, demanding that institutional leaders pay attention to the challenges Black students, and students of color in general, regularly face. More...

Although protests over campus racial climate dominated the headlines in 2015, racism—both individual and structural—is a long-standing problem in higher education just as in American society at large. More...

As lawmakers in states around the country debate whether to allow concealed guns on campus, a new report from the Education Commission of the States and NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education offers a detailed summary of state legislative action and higher education system policy decisions. More...

​In the book Women and Leadership in Higher Education (2014), I was the lead author of the introductory chapter, titled “Benchmarking Women’s Leadership in Academia and Beyond.” This chapter quantifies the progress of women in higher education, as well as the qualitative elements that either advance or hinder women’s progress toward fair and equitable presence in higher education senior leadership. More...