Students who bypassed developmental courses were more likely to pass and earn more credits, according to the Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness.
"It's easy to get really paralyzed, but the headlines right now don't mean anything has happened," says William Guerrero, chief financial officer at the University of Bridgeport.
More than half of all executive leaders said they're not harnessing feel inadequate in harnessing the power of generative AI to prepare students for the future, according to a survey from AAC&U.
While many board leaders may fear losing control of their institutions, others are buying into this collaborative model to lower costs and break down operational siloes.
Leaders of California's two largest public university systems have aired their concerns about Gov. Gavin Newsom's state budget proposal, which is expected to reduce up to 8% of their funding in the 2025-26 fiscal year.
One president active on LinkedIn views her activity as a professional responsibility to connect with community members outside of campus, such as alumni. Several principles guide her posts.
A new report from the American Enterprise Institute ranked more than 400 current and former presidents based on much they improved student success measures during their tenure.
For only the second time in history, state funding to public colleges in 2023 exceeded per-student funding levels unseen since before the Great Recession, new research suggests.
Over half (56%) of all surveyed higher ed leaders stated their revenue increased this most recent fiscal year, a 12 percentage-point bump over last year, according to BDO, a financial consulting firm.
In moments of division, leaders are encouraged to embrace the roles of “educators and bridge-builders” to create environments where empathy and understanding take priority over conflict, per report.
Researchers with Academic Search surveyed over 700 presidents on what skills they believe presidents must learn in today's climate. Date acumen and trust top the list.
Liberal arts college leaders attending The Presidents Dinner in D.C. are tangled in a Catch-22 balancing First Amendment protections. But dialogue and learning to listen are seen as solutions.
The Value Lens Approach is a strategic tool designed to assist higher education leaders in aligning institutional actions and resource allocations with their core distinctions.
David A. Thomas will leave Morehouse College having increased applications from high-achieving students and raised more funds than any of the school's previous leaders. In other moves, Berklee College of Music has picked its next president.
Former U.S. senator Ben Sasse, who cited his wife's health issues and other family matters as reasons for his departure, was the second president of a major Florida university to resign in recent days.
If left unaddressed, academic burnout could transform our institutions of higher education into “burnout shops” for faculty and students. The implications of such a transformation are far-reaching.
Strong Integration is about so much more than governance and oversight. It’s ecosystem-wide adaptive change—including leadership structures, academics and curriculum and co-curriculum.
Cornell President Martha E. Pollack has announced she will retire on June 30 after leading the New York university for seven years. Pollack's departure marks the third Ivy League leader to step down amid political turbulence in recent months.
As colleges and universities across Florida and Texas are forced to shudder their DEI offices, higher education leaders in other states whose lawmakers threaten to propose similar legislation are voicing their opposition—before it becomes too late.
AAUP has released a scathing report compiling interviews from current and former faculty members, students, alumni, trustees, and retired university leaders documenting what it believes is a network of institutions declining into authoritative control, intellectual and moral bankruptcy and unfettered faculty turnover.
"I agree that in some instances I should have been more diligent when seeking corrections, and I regret that I was not," said Tessier-Lavigne in a statement.
Of the 2,723 public, nonprofit private, and for-profit private four-year institutions researched by Colgate University leaders, only 713 of those institutions are led by women.
In three short months, New College of Florida installed six new trustees, ousted its president, abolished its Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence, and is now removing any trace of Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez, the school's top DEI officer.
Dedicated to embracing an evolving higher education landscape that's cost-effective, career-minded and digitally native, Vermont has begun to revitalize its once-flailling student body. Two big initiatives pushing this change are recent school mergers and a powerful free community college pipeline.
The number of female-led colleges and universities around the world increased this year, and America is leading the charge. Of the 48 top-ranked schools around the world helmed by a woman, 16 represent the red, white and blue, according to Times Higher Education (THE).
Dr. Elayne Hayes-Anthony's commitment to "integrity; also, transparency and accountability" will attempt to right the wrongs of their most recent president—and maybe even those that came before him.
PEN America and the American Council on Education (ACE) teamed up to provide campus leaders with viable strategies to fend off legislative attacks and leverage media relations and campus stakeholders in their defense.
These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but recent hirings prove there is still a first time for everything: NYU and three other colleges have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their histories.
