Alcino Donadel is a UB staff writer and first-generation journalism graduate from the University of Florida. He has triple citizenship from the U.S., Ecuador and Brazil.
"It's at this moment when you're called to lead. It's hard and exhausting, but it's also an energizing moment," the Hollins University president says. "We can change the trajectory of our students' lives, our institutions' lives and this nation's future."
School leaders who wish to comply with new regulations while simultaneously ensuring they're appealing to diverse student bodies are parrying legislative restrictions with a simple yet sly strategy: rebranding their DEI offices.
"As a result of our budget decisions, the university will be in a position to allocate sufficient funds to ensure no college starts FY 2025 in a budget deficit," University of Arizona President Robert Robbins wrote in an email to the community ahead of the board meeting.
With increased protections afforded to LGBTQIA+ students and new protections afforded to alleged sexual assault victims, Biden's long-awaited Title IX revisions are already facing criticism.
Calls for divestment in Israel are fueling protests nationwide, but institutions' commitment to financial security is creating an uncomfortable ethical quandary.
Nearly a quarter of today's undergraduate students have seriously considered leaving school or were nearly dismissed, according to a new Sallie Mae study conducted by Ipsos.
Twenty-seven institutions from 16 states reported 145 or more campus crimes in 2022, according to a new report compiled from U.S. Department of Education data.
Three college administrators—including one president—will be coordinating goodbye parties at their current institutions as they prepare to move on to bigger opportunities elsewhere.
College and university leaders thumped by campus blowback from the Israel-Hamas war find themselves with a perfect opportunity to prepare for a contentious presidential election season in the fall, a new guidebook declares.
More than 50 public and private nonprofit colleges have closed, merged or announced closures since March 2020, and over half of the students whose institutions shut down did not re-enroll.
While some Republicans commented on Shafik's stronger poise and direction in condemning antisemitism than her Harvard and UPenn counterparts in December, the president of nine months repeatedly found herself in the tiger's jaw from representatives' fervent questions.
Elon University, a private university based in the liberal arts in North Carolina, recently announced that it's promising that 90% of its students will reach a foundational level of "data competency" by the time they graduate.
The report from Strada Education measures just how well each state is preparing its young adults for higher education and the career opportunities ahead of them—and which need improvement.
