Inclusivity, History, and Navigating the Way Forward
Most higher education leaders would agree that our nation’s colleges and universities have a responsibility to promote diversity and inclusion. 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...
“Pipelines, Pathways, and Institutional Leadership: An Update on the Status of Women in Higher Education,” a new infobrief by ACE’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy and ACE’s Division of Leadership Programs, found that men outnumbered women on both public and independent governing boards by more than two to one, according to preliminary data. More...
EDUCAUSE has released “Top 10 IT Issues, 2016: Divest, Reinvest, and Differentiate,” which identifies the main information technology issues facing colleges and universities and describes what they are doing to address them. More...
Throughout the fall semester, colleges and universities around the United States and Canada experienced perhaps the biggest upsurge in student activism since the 1960s. Similar to the demonstrations 50 years ago, student protests today are focused on social justice, specifically on issues of diversity and inclusion. More...
The report considered factors like a state’s growth or decline in public higher education support since the recession, how states compared to other states, support to disadvantaged students, and whether states offer aid on the basis of need or merit. More...
William Shakespeare is hitting the road, and he’s bringing his first folio with him. Among his stops will be 20 colleges and universities across the country, beginning next week with the University of Notre Dame (IN).
The 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare contains 36 of his plays, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. And now that folio is going on tour as part of the Folger Shakespeare Library’s First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare. More...