Designs By JKValerie Kinloch, dean of the School of Education at the U. of Pittsburgh, has been named president of Johnson C. Smith U. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsMichael Bernstein, former…
Read more Transitions: Johnson C. Smith U. Names New President; U. of California at Berkeley Chancellor to RetireSalvador Hector Ochoa, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at San Diego State U., has been named president of Texas A&M U. at San Antonio. CHIEF…
Read more Transitions: New Presidents on 3 California State U. CampusesIt’s not unusual for politicians to speak at public colleges’ graduation ceremonies. But this year, one governor’s controversial education policies have drawn protests and petitions from students decrying…
Read more A Divisive Governor Hits the Commencement Circuit. For Some Students, He’s Not Welcome.A university president will step down from his second leadership post in three years, after a tenure in which he worked to reverse enrollment declines but also faced…
Read more After Challenging Stints at 2 Struggling Colleges, a President Will Step DownThe college presidency — which has seen a wave of turnovers in recent years — has long been recognized as a challenging job that can sometimes put those…
Read more Here Are the Parts of Their Job for Which Presidents Want More TrainingThousands of instructors at Rutgers University joined a national surge in union activity on Monday, becoming the fifth currently active strike on a college campus. Three unions representing…
Read more Rutgers’ President Threatened to Take Striking Instructors to Court. Then He Walked It Back.New Mexico State University’s chancellor, Dan E. Arvizu, resigned, effective immediately, on Friday during a special meeting of the Board of Regents. The board had agreed in December…
Read more New Mexico State’s Beleaguered Chancellor Resigns, Effective ImmediatelyIn an opinion column in The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos criticized administrative bloat at Stanford University, writing that the institution…
Read more Does Stanford Have More Administrators Than Undergrads?John Karl Scholz, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison, has been named president of the U. of Oregon. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsWilliam…
Read more Transitions: New President Named at U. of Oregon; First Woman Selected to Lead Bowdoin CollegeA student protest that interrupted a controversial speaker at Stanford University last week led its president and law dean to criticize campus staff, including, apparently, the associate dean…
Read more Disruption of Speech at Stanford Prompts President to Apologize — and Criticize Staff’s ResponseAmong an avalanche of bills filed in the Texas Legislature on Friday were at least half a dozen proposals that would affect public colleges — a sign of…
Read more Texas Republicans Want to Reform Higher Ed. What Are Their Plans?In recent months, Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, has laid out a comprehensive vision that would place public higher education under extraordinary state control. A bill introduced this…
Read more ‘Never Seen Anything Like It’: New Bill Would Write DeSantis’s Higher-Ed Vision Into LawMarymount University, in Virginia, plans to make a sharp turn away from the humanities, eliminating nine liberal-arts majors for undergraduate students. The move highlights tough decisions that many…
Read more 9 Humanities Majors Are On the Chopping Block at Marymount U.Students are calling for the president of Connecticut College to resign over her handling of a fundraising event that had been scheduled for last week at a Florida…
Read more A College’s Controversial Fundraiser Led a Dean to Quit. Now the President Faces Calls to Resign.Last week, a governor had a strong message for public colleges in his state: Get ready for a world without Covid-relief funding. Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, a…
Read more Federal Covid Relief Is Ending. Connecticut’s Public Colleges Could Face Big Cuts.The provost of Metropolitan State University of Denver is stepping down after the institution’s Board of Trustees put on hold a plan to reduce faculty workload that he’d…
Read more A University Paused a Long-Awaited Plan to Reduce Faculty Workload. Then the Plan’s Booster Stepped Down.Abolish race-conscious practices. End “leftist indoctrination.” Fix what’s wrong with higher education in America. Those have been the long-stated goals of Republican governors, lawmakers, and activists who, empowered…
Read more Could North Idaho College Really Lose Its Accreditation?Glen E.EllmanDaniel Pullin is the next president of Texas Christian U. CHIEF EXECUTIVESAppointmentsKim E. Armstrong, vice chancellor for student, equity, and community affairs at Arkansas State University-Three Rivers,…
Read more Transitions: Texas Christian U. Names New President; U. of Nebraska at Lincoln President to RetireBates College occupies a fairly rarefied perch in higher education. Around half the freshmen who attend the small private college in Maine pay the full $78,000 price tag…
Read more Why One Wealthy College Says It Needs to Cut CostsCollege is a high-priced liberal indoctrination program where radical professors and administrators quash the speech of conservatives and promote outlandish ideas like critical race theory. Meanwhile, students rack…
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