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Admin & Management

Campus mailroom do’s and don’ts

Here’s how to ensure that your higher ed institution’s mailroom incorporates best practices to increase efficiencies and service.

Securing insurance coverage for sexual abuse claims

(Note: This is the last of a three-part series on insurance coverage in the #MeToo era. Read Part One here. Read Part Two here.) Navigating the claims process for sex […]
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Roadblocks to securing coverage for sexual abuse claims

(Note: This is part two of a three part series on insurance coverage in the #MeToo era. Read Part one here.) An often troubling reality of sex abuse cases is […]
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UB op-ed: Colleges can help the formerly incarcerated transcend past mistakes—and I’m an example

My first job out of prison was as a warehouse laborer earning minimum wage. The job was mind numbing and backbreaking, and didn’t offer benefits. Then, I received a call from the local university for a clerical position; it was the opportunity I desperately needed, and it changed the trajectory of my life.

HBCUs remain crucial to access in higher ed

Historically black colleges and universities remain as relevant as ever in giving African Americans access to higher education, says a new United Negro College Fund report.

Deliver Like Disney: Omni-Channel Marketing for Student Recruitment

Omni-channel marketing can help your student recruitment! In fact, it is necessary to keep up with the expectations of today’s prospective students.  Register to access this prerecorded presentation to learn […]
Wed Jul 10th, 2019

Will a new rule settle the grad student unionization question?

Private colleges and universities may get more certainty over whether they must treat graduate-student teaching assistants as employees who have the right to unionize.
Tue Jul 2nd, 2019

Insurance coverage in the #MeToo era

When it comes to sex abuse claims, the increasingly litigious climate, coupled with societal inflation of jury awards for abuse cases, has opened up educational institutions to significant risk and potentially bankrupting liability.

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Tue Jul 2nd, 2019

UB op-ed: Separating political bias from academic expertise

In these loud and quarrelsome times consider the role of the public intellectual, particularly academics with a particular area of expertise they feel might elevate the debate on issues of the day outside the ivory tower
Tue Jul 2nd, 2019

Not your parents’ university

Higher education should be a transformative experience, not just a business proposition, says David J. Staley. If we really want to offer that transformative experience, higher ed has to break […]
Mon Jul 1st, 2019

Morehouse College commencement speaker gift to graduates with student loans and its aftermath

Is the dream gift for Morehouse College’s 2019 graduating class a nightmare for the financial aid office?
Mon Jul 1st, 2019