Historian Steve Conn says business schools take precedence over liberal arts programs, often with state-of-the-art facilities and more resources. But when it comes to measuring results, there is a disappointing history of missed opportunities, unmet aspirations and education mistakes.
Over the past two years the #MeToo movement has revealed longstanding and widespread mistreatment of many women in the workplace. Nichols College President Susan West Engelkemeyer says teaching leadership skills to a new generation of male and female students may offer the best hope for a workplace makeover sooner than later.
From unveiling a new resource on the status of race and ethnicity in higher ed (ACE) to reporting on college enrollment (NASFAA), here is the latest higher ed association news.
Headlining UB Tech® 2019 are four prominent speakers who will address a diversity of cutting-edge topics for attendees. The conference will be held June 10-12 in Orlando.
Nada Anid, vice president for strategic communications and external affairs at the New York Institute of Technology, says women are a great, untapped resource for the science and technology industries—we just have to help them all realize it. Long an advocate for women pursuing education and career opportunities in STEM fields, Anid's efforts in this […]
NASHVILLE, Tennessee—When Glenda Baskin Glover applied to college, her decision wasn't whether to enroll in a historically black university, she says, but which one she chose to attend. "There were schools I couldn't get into because of the racial climate of the day," says Glover, who graduated from Tennessee State University in 1974 and became […]
Academia continues to evolve for women aspiring to move into leadership positions. Once a career environment that offered few opportunities and minimal support for women's leadership, the situation is improving for faculty and administrative positions, at colleges and universities, public and private, large and small. In my own career path, I navigated through the university […]
Campus safety has become increasingly complex. Higher ed leaders face the threat of serious safety incidents on their campuses every day, while changing legislative mandates only add to the complexity. Ensuring that safety training and processes are up to date can be challenging. As a result, many institutions are adopting more efficient processes and individualized […]
