When I interviewed Olivia during the summer of 2024, I was collecting stories from higher education administrators about leadership and burnout. Olivia is a senior leader in academic affairs whose role, thanks to mandates by new leaders and people leaving the institution, includes what was previously the work of three people. Olivia told me she had planned to work into her 70s but now dreams of early retirement every day because of her huge workload and toxic executive leaders. She says,
From “Rename and Remain” to “Reframe and Regain”: Reimagining Campus Inclusiveness
In my last article, I highlighted the crucial strategies of “person-first” and “targeted universalism” amid the wave of anti-DEI legislation in higher education. Initially, many of us embraced a “rename
Molly Kerby
July 7, 2025
