Today’s environment for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) looks dramatically different than just a year ago. Several state legislatures are now asking colleges and universities to report on their DEI budgets as well as provide ...
A September 6, 2023, New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof highlighted our global loneliness crisis. Kristof states, “Loneliness crushes the soul, but researchers are finding it does far more damage than that. It is ...
Content warning: This article contains mentions of bereavement experiences, including loss of a parent and a child. One morning in mid-February, I was working at home and about to join a committee meeting virtually when I ...
In the first part of this article, I discussed levels of intervention to help shift a system toward health. If we want to change trends such as exhaustion and burnout, we need to address the ...
I’m often asked how I succeed at managing work-life balance—or as I call it, “life-work balance”— and it stems from my childhood. My parents both worked as educators, and both were highly successful in their ...
Today’s US university is asked to be everything to every student, providing services from housing to healthcare and public safety and judicial systems while ensuring that students feel safe and supported, that they are free ...
In recent years, many institutions of higher education have begun revising, revamping, or reimagining their general education programs. This is in part because the distribution models of the past century have lost their sheen and ...
As I’ve written elsewhere in this newsletter, burnout is a serious problem in higher education—not only for faculty but also for students and staff. Defined by the World Health Organization as a “syndrome resulting from ...
Exhaustion, burnout, anxiety, and depression are commonplace topics in most workplaces in the United States. Higher education is no exception. In the Healthy Minds study from the 2021–22 academic year, 44 percent of the student ...
Part 1 of this series dealt with what you as a department head should consider before you embark on a new project. Why? It’s easy to have a great idea. You may be bursting with ...