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June 2025

Ted Lasso’s Playbook for Higher Education Job Descriptions

Hiring, Recruitment, and Retention

Ted Lasso’s Playbook for Higher Education Job Descriptions

June 2, 2025 | By Katie Fischer and Deborah Erickson

Supporting Our Scholarship: An Intentional Approach for Supporting Higher Education Faculty

Faculty Development

Supporting Our Scholarship: An Intentional Approach for Supporting Higher Education Faculty

June 2, 2025 | By Michelle Ciminelli, Dennis Garland, Jennifer Hartman, Karen Poland, Laura Sarchet, and Norline Wild

Understanding Disability Accommodations and Modifications

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Understanding Disability Accommodations and Modifications

June 2, 2025 | By Eric Lyerly

Leveraging Incremental Transformation to Create and Support Large-Scale Institutional Change

Elizabeth Holcombe, Ronald E. Hallett, and Adrianna Kezar May 19, 2025

Change tends to be a constant in higher education. Some changes may be relatively narrow in scope, such as shifting the curriculum within a first-year seminar course. Other times, transformational change—that is, the alteration of the “operating systems, underlying values, and culture of an organization” (Kezar, 2018, p. 85)—may be

The Art of Diplomacy

Thomas McDaniel May 19, 2025

Diplomat—”someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you begin to look forward to the trip.” Well, dean colleague, how good of a diplomat are you? The best deans I know have honed their diplomatic skills to a fine art. Let’s talk about diplomacy

Now Is the Time to Remember the Value of Our International Students

Constance C. Relihan May 5, 2025

During a March press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the federal administration’s actions in moving to deport Tufts University graduate student and Fulbright Scholar Rümeysa Öztürk. His remarks included the following, which I quote at length from the official transcript of his remarks because it provides a powerful

Exploring Passion at Work and Burnout in Higher Education

Rebecca Pope-Ruark May 5, 2025

I fell down a rabbit hole recently. Despite trying to convince myself that I had collected enough literature to be able to start writing my new book on women’s leadership and burnout in higher education, I read this article in the Harvard Business Review about passion

Changes to Law School Admissions Requirements Signal Broader Shift for Higher Education

Eric Lyerly May 5, 2025

A few years ago, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar proposed to do away with Standard 503—a long-standing policy that mandated the use of a standardized admissions test for law school applicants. For decades, this standard required schools to use

Sharing Leadership and Moving to Culture Change to Save Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Values within Challenging State Policy Environments

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

Adrianna Kezar October 16, 2023

The Equity Stakes in Student Evaluations of Teaching for Contingent Faculty

What are the equity stakes in student evaluations of teaching (SETs)? And how are these stakes intensified for minoritized contingent faculty in a two-tiered faculty system? This question is

Edna B. Chun and Alvin Evans June 5, 2023

Fulbright Opportunities for Your Students, Your Faculty, and You

If you are reading this, you believe in higher education and are committed to making your program and unit as dynamic as possible. This requires hard work every day:

Laura G. McGee May 15, 2023

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