The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

The district court compared the actions in the state to events depicted in George Orwell’s novel 1984 , and rejected the Florida public higher education governing board’s “positively dystopian” argument that professors possessed academic freedom only as long as they expressed viewpoints approved by the state.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I was a member of the first cohort of school-leavers expected to take out the government loans to pay the then new £9000 university fees in 2012-13. 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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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

This can be accomplished by addressing ineffective presidential onboarding processes and shared governance best practices , among others. Shared governance in consultation with representative bodies must be respected. The community must have demonstrated respect, trust, confidence, and commitment to consultation and shared governance.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 16, 2018

They point to State College of Florida, which ended tenure for incoming faculty several years ago and now is giving new professors annual contracts. Our next blog will look at the trends that are emerging in relation to the facultys role in strategy, curriculum development, and governance. That trend has continued.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This significantly diminishes effective board governance. Similarly, at Chapel Hill, the board declined to grant tenure to a highly distinguished journalist. This can be included in the buyout clause when creating the compensation contract. Board dysfunction significantly contributes to the issue of presidential turnover.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Those initial 2-3 years ended up stretching to 38 ½ years before I retired in March 2021, covering six countries and territories and incorporating a move from faculty to academic administration. . To some extent, this is inevitable when, say, a faculty member assumes administrative responsibilities. Flexibility is valued.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. To help reduce costs, a significant role of boards and administrators includes identifying what programs are no longer by realizing if they align with local industries, for example.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

A driving force behind this rise in tuition is that some administrators and presidents prioritize rankings and performing well vis-à a-vie their competitors. There are also more administrators per student than before. So I asked a lot of administrators, “Why is this going on? This addresses only 30% of the problem.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

This success story underscores the crucial role of technology in not only supporting administrative functions but also in driving institutional growth. Technology, governance the same way. Post-pandemic, the university’s enrollment numbers have surged into double digits. 00:37:46] Drumm McNaughton: Oh, absolutely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Trump’s administration and its less tolerant immigration policies. “At He says the idea for the bill came “from the failure of the federal government regarding immigration policy, especially when it comes to young people who often come here as infants.” But then in 2016 came President Donald J.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

Administrators must STOP minimizing what has happened at MSU — and what happens still. “What is typically in most presidential contracts is that when they complete their contract, should they want to stay at the university, they will become a full professor in a department to be determined,” Wilde said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations. What will likely happen as a result.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names. .”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

But the contract was ratified with a split vote , with only about 62 percent of teaching assistants and 68 percent of graduate student researchers supporting the deal, compared to a 98 percent vote earlier in the fall in favor of striking. New contracts take time to implement. This cohort of student workers asked for more.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 27, 2025

We believe that Purdue under Mitch Daniels, a former George Walker Bush administrator and Governor of Indiana, is becoming a high profile and influential spokesperson for the transformation of public higher education in the 21st century in directions that we find dangerous and that go against how we value higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” ASHE is moving its 2024 meeting to Minneapolis, even though it may incur financial costs from breaking a contract with the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. For sites governed by laws deemed contrary to the group’s values, “if you’re going to go, you have to exercise your voice,” he added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2025

In an unprecedented move that signals escalating tensions between the federal government and higher education institutions, the Trump administration has frozen more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution refused to comply with demands to limit campus activism.

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Robert Kelchen

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes. The higher education field still bears scars from the pandemic, and one key one is the need for financial liquidity.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Reeds defines Professional Services as replacing and embracing terms such as administrators, non-academic staff or support staff. Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8. The scope of the needs to be met is now very wide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2025

million in contracts between Columbia and the federal government and conduct a "comprehensive review" of more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to the institution. This announcement comes just four days after the task force revealed it would consider stop work orders for $51.4 This is our number one priority."

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2025

But the sector’s collective voice is stronger than many might think, said Jonathan Fansmith, assistant vice president of government relations at the American Council on Education, in a webinar hosted by the public policy advocacy nonprofit last week.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

Administration accuses university of failing to protect students and plans to look into federal grants and contracts The Trump administration announced a review on Monday of $9bn in federal contracts and grants at Harvard University over allegations that it failed to address issues of antisemitism on campus.

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University Business

APRIL 21, 2025

Faculty senates across prominent colleges and universities are urging their leaders to adopt a special policy to fightthe Trump administration’s recent attacks on institutions’ federal funding: a mutual defense compact. Each is geared toward state institutions and the country’s 250 public land-grant universities.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2025

Colleges and universities being investigated for their responses to campus anti-Semitism now risk losing federal funding, the Trump administration warned. General Services Administration accuse the Ivy League institution of “ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students.”

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2025

These are just some examples of the money the federal government has withheld or is threatening to withhold from various colleges and universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Harvard University.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2025

Colleges and universities being investigated for their responses to campus antisemitism now risk losing federal funding, the Trump administration warned. General Services Administration accuse the Ivy League institution of “ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2025

This development comes in the wake of the Department's recent decision to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University, citing the institution's alleged failure to address antisemitism.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Derrick Johnson, President of NAACP A coalition of education advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration's actions to dismantle the U.S. billion in contracts and grants for congressionally authorized programs. The lawsuit is supported by Student Defense and the Education Law Center (ELC).

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University Business

MARCH 20, 2025

To better understand the administration’s agenda, its important to know what the department is responsible for in terms of spending. Those figures are significantly lower than FY2022when the Biden administration expanded student loan forgiveness programs. million people Grants: $33.9 Heres a look at that data. Loans: $85.8

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

Government alleges university failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus The Donald Trump administration announced on Friday that it had canceled $400m in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University in New York because of what it alleges as the colleges repeated failure to protect students from antisemitic harassment. (..)

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2025

After Harvard’s back-and-forth with the Trump administration earlier this week, the president has hinted at seeking to remove the tax-exempt status of the world’s wealthiest university.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 24, 2025

His administration pushed for expanded funding for charter schools and private school vouchers, which would allow families to use public funds to pay for private education. Trumps administration took several steps to curb what he described as left-wing bias in higher education. Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Biden Administration U.S. Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. In addition, students who come from low-income families, which allowed them to qualify to receive a Pell Grant, will have debt reduced $20,000,” Biden said in August.

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