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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Events in the Sunshine State also reflect an ongoing legal debate over the extent that First Amendment rights apply to public college and university professors in carrying out their teaching, research and service duties. Hutchens is a professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

When I was asked to speak about my experiences of graduate indebtedness at the recent SRHE event in June , I was initially enthusiastic. In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963).

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

By 2032, according to a new report from Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in partnership with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), college sports revenue, including college football playoff revenue and new lucrative conference media contracts, is projected to reach $16 billion annually for 54 schools with the most lucrative football programs.

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Presidential Turnover Crisis in Higher Ed–Solutions and Challenges: The Role of Politics, Policies, Processes, Performance, and Public Relations

The Change Leader, Inc.

In an unusual turn of events, the board chair instructed the president to announce her resignation during the morning board meeting without prior notification to the full board. Similarly, at Chapel Hill, the board declined to grant tenure to a highly distinguished journalist. It doesn’t take a Ph.D.

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Dr. Kirwan is the past chair of, among other boards, the American Council for Higher Education, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the Business Higher Education Forum, and the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce.

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How the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This analogy highlighted the disparity between the rights and opportunities granted to white Americans and the ongoing systemic oppression faced by Black Americans. Other jobs were opened through contracts for black products and black service providers.” These jobs were added across all employment classifications.

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While Some Institutions Choose Police Response, Others Choose to Listen

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The majority of protesting students are calling for their institutions to disclose their investments and to divest from any funding or connections with Israel, whether that’s through military defense contracts or in partnership with Israeli institutions. 7],” said Dr. Charles H.