Few institutions in the United States constitute as much aspiration and contestation as higher education. Our colleges and universities have long been the focus of significant public funding investment and
Higher education has long faced calls to improve its commitments to free expression and intellectual pluralism. Now under more pressure than ever to do so, and cognizant of historically low
Universities increasingly adopt statements affirming commitments to academic and expressive freedoms. Yet translating those commitments into institutional practice can be challenging in the absence of a comprehensive guide identifying the
The day after the 2016 US presidential election, a dean asked me whether we should send a campuswide email reminding students that the counseling center could help them through distress.
US higher education institutions are currently facing a crisis of trust and unprecedented external attacks on shared governance. These attacks include large and volatile funding cuts from federal and state
After seven years as a department chair, I still proudly identify as a servant leader. But I have also learned the hard way that the label itself isn’t enough.
Leadership is the art of navigating constant complexity, where every decision balances people, purpose, and an ever-changing landscape. Colleges and universities operate through shared governance, professional autonomy, and firmly rooted
For decades, higher education leadership has obsessed over “student success” as a purely operational metric. We track retention and graduation rates and postgraduation outcomes with the same linear precision that
Over the past several years, faculty across the country have watched the rise of so-called anti-woke legislation restricting what professors may say in the classroom, especially in regard to topics
During a recent sabbatical studying inclusive postsecondary education in Ireland, I visited four universities—University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin, Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, and Mary Immaculate
