Use your power wisely: advice to university leaders from the experts
Four professionals from outside the higher education sector tell university leaders how to dress, deal with press, invest wisely and nurture innovation. More...
Making Leadership and Service Count in the Job Search
Graduate students need to recognize the marketability and value of their unpaid work and anticipate how it could be attractive to a future employer, writes Amanda Cornwall. More...
On Gratitude and Leadership
Adriana Bankston offers the following advice for being a good team leader both in academe and outside it. More...
6 Leadership Imperatives
Retiring senior administrator Tom Rocklin lists the six key things he knows now that he would have liked to have known when just starting out. More...
Moving Technology-Enhanced-Learning Forward: Bridging Divides through Leadership
A study of academics and professional staff engaged in the emerging field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) reveal three areas of significant difference in reference to perspectives about TEL. These differences rest on the following individual characteristics: 1) research areas and competencies, 2) academic level, and 3) attitudes towards teaching. More...
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Learning to be a leader
For many community college presidents, the presidency is the culmination of a longstanding career ambition, marked by ceremonies and celebrations. Yet leadership development is a never-ending process of informal and formal learning experiences. More...
The changing role of university presidents
If your perception of higher education is that it’s led by aging white males, you’re right. According to a report released this week by the American Council on Education (ACE), the average college president in 2016 was a 62-year-old married white male with a doctorate. More...
In the Texas Capitol this year, university leaders' worst fears never materialized
Some of Texas’ top lawmakers entered the 2017 legislative session with big plans to shake up higher education in the state. Instead, their 140 days' worth of work was most notable for what they didn’t do to public universities. More...