The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leaders, especially university presidents dealing with issues like enrollment declines and high turnover rates of higher ed presidents , can greatly benefit from a perspective of gratitude. This approach benefits not only the leaders themselves but also the broader academic community they serve. Yesterday was Thanksgiving.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. million students were enrolled in the 2019–20 academic year, but that number dropped to around 1.8 million in 2021–22, according to the system’s website.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Perhaps the following conversation between Anita Casavantes Bradford and Steven Mintz about how R-1s can support their faculty to find fulfillment in meaningful research and as transformative teachers and mentors can suggest some answers. ” However, our campuses and our faculty roles have changed dramatically in the last few decades.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has recently issued a statement on board independence and leadership, marking a critical moment for academic institutions. Academic Freedom: Central to the institution’s role in society and economy, academic freedom must be protected.

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Parchment

JANUARY 30, 2024

Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, President & CEO of Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute (ACEI) joins us to discuss the challenges evaluating credentials from across the globe. Transcript Matt Sterenberg (00:01.93) All right, I am here with Jasmine Saeedi Keenert, President and CEO of the Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 4, 2023

These are real issues that certainly deserve all the attention they receive. But there are three other issues that are equally important yet aren’t front and center on the radar screen. These are issues that need to be addressed if we are to improve the quality of the education our campuses offer.

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EAB

MARCH 7, 2023

So, as you've noted, the Reis Group is a small public relations woman-owned PR firm here in Washington DC and we focus on health, healthcare, and societal issues. Well, the reality is crisis communications are issues management. All that planning should ideally happen long before there's an issue or a crisis to manage.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 11, 2023

The involvement of faculty in the enrollment and retention process is critical. But higher ed has unfortunately created an environment that does not necessarily reward faculty for their capacity to develop and maintain relationships with students. Loyalty” is executed on the back of retention. Amrit, welcome to the show.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Stop WOKE Act continues to be blocked at Florida public colleges and universities, and it will likely stay that way at least through the end of this academic year. ” Academic Freedom Diversity Editorial Tags: Academic freedom Faculty Free speech Florida Image Source: University of South Florida Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

News & World Report again ranked Florida the No. Yet DeSantis and his team have made systematic efforts to dismantle the freedoms of students and faculty to teach and learn at the cutting edge of all fields. Students are permitted to secretly record class lectures for use in disciplinary or legal actions against faculty.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2023

“We want our universities to be marketplaces of ideas where issues that are difficult can be discussed rigorously, passionately, but in a civil manner,” he told Inside Higher Ed. Student protests, especially of conservative speakers, continue to make the news. ” He’s not the only higher ed leader in the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Image: Leaders of West Virginia’s Bluefield State University eliminated the Faculty Senate and instituted a posttenure review process that an American Association of University Professors officer says diverges significantly from that organization’s recommendations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

So most of the publicly available information about the relationships between companies that recruit and market on behalf of colleges has come from contracts collected through Freedom of Information Act requests from public universities. So no one was remotely surprised that the U.S. David Sherwood, CEO and co-founder of BibliU, a U.K.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

It wasn’t an auspicious start to the new semester—at least from my perspective as a humanities scholar who believes that our job is to help students acquire the messy skills of information collection, critical evaluation and meaningful synthesizing. Academic essays today have a more rigid framework than those Montaigne wrote.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

At a press conference last Tuesday , DeSantis said that defunding DEI programs—which he called “hostile to academic freedom”—will make them “wither on the vine.” Florida’s proposed legislation is expected to be considered in March when state lawmakers convene. “Gov.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Critics consider the bill an attack on higher education related to broader culture war issues—ahead of a potential DeSantis presidential run in 2024—rather than a serious piece of legislation aimed at fixing current issues or improving higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(The board is comprised of six members appointed by DeSantis, five appointed by the Republican-led Florida Board of Governors and one representative each from the student body and the faculty.) FIRE also weighed in on plans to expand the power of presidents over faculty tenure.

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University Business

JANUARY 1, 2024

News & World Report’s longstanding college rankings was called into question as institutions vie to personalize their brand to match students’ needs. Reflecting some of the most significant news developments in 2023, our readers at University Business gravitated toward topics reflecting issues most top-of-mind.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2023

15 August · Episode 168 Nurturing Free Speech and Respectful Dialogue in Higher Education 40 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Eric shares how faculty, staff, and students can approach free speech and respectful dialogue by conducting co-teaching practices and exercises. This allows students to see arguments from other people’s views.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 30, 2023

“I’m deeply concerned about the academic censorship at all levels and including in higher education that’s being advanced by several Republican leaders, especially at the state level,” Oregon representative Suzanne Bonamici said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 9, 2023

“I worry more about younger academics. But he didn’t expect the news he got two weeks later: his yearlong fellowship had been rejected. Roth said a would-be faculty colleague at the Kennedy School said she’d asked Elmendorf what had gone wrong, and that Elmendorf allegedly cited Roth’s stance on Israel.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The issue for us on campus is freedom of expression,” said Dr. Najam Haider, chair of religion at Barnard College, a private women's liberal arts college that is part of Columbia. Some of us in faculty have different positions when it comes to the issue of Israel and Palestine.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 8, 2023

While he hasn’t declared his candidacy yet, political observers say DeSantis is clearly seeking to energize the Republican base by throwing them red meat on pressing social issues—particularly education, at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Protests have been met with police force, including widespread arrests. “Protests can be very effective at getting an issue into national media,” said Dr. Omar Wasow, an assistant professor of political science at University of California Berkeley who studies civil rights-era protests of the 1960s. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech.

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