Women are underrepresented in technology leadership across all industries, making up just 19 percent of CIOs, according to a 2016 analysis by management consulting firm Korn Ferry. In higher education, the picture’s slightly better, with women accounting for 22 percent of CIOs in 2017—but that’s down from 28 percent in 2016, according to the Center for Higher Education Chief Information Officer Studies. More...
How can universities hang on to their students?
With student retention becoming a priority, universities are seeking out the strategies that work best to bring down drop-out rates. More...
4 Privileges of Participating in the Leading Change Institute
By Joshua Kim. Are you a graduate of an intensive leadership / professional development institute, program, or experience. More...
First-Names, Campus Culture, and Institutional Leadership
By Joshua Kim. What do you call your university president?
Are you on a first-name basis with your university president, provost, and deans. More...
We Don’t Need No Stinking Thought Leaders
Despite Daniel Drezner’s arguments to the contrary, now is not the “worst of times” for public intellectuals, Jonathan Marks argues. More...
Fighting to Keep Leaders Who Are Academics
By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty members at the University of Wisconsin at Madison want to kill a state budget proposal that would ban the university system’s Board of Regents from requiring the system president and campus chancellors and vice chancellors be academics themselves. More...
Southern Cross University education masters borrows from MBA to teach leadership
Techno-News Blog. As teachers and school principals are faced with increased challenges in leading people and managing organisations Southern Cross University (SCU) has added elements of an MBA degree to a postgraduate course for teachers. More...
3 questions all campus leaders should be able to answer
By Jack Neill. The questions today's campus leaders should be asking and answering…and what institutional analytics can answer. More...
Strengthening higher ed leadership in a time of rapid change
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The original vision for higher education in the United States was that it would not just benefit individuals but be vital to the development and maintenance of a healthy republic. More...
Advancing Women Leaders in the New Political Environment
“The role of [a] college president is to be a bridge builder.” This statement by President Yves Salomon-Fernandez of Cumberland County College in New Jersey, made during a session about advancing women’s leadership that focused on the current political climate on campuses, elaborates the need to bring everyone together to work in the best interests of our nation. More...