Higher education leadership requires more than content knowledge or operational expertise. It calls for emotional intelligence, political savvy, narrative power and a deep well of self-awareness.
Facing enrollment declines and financial strain, Clark University plans faculty cuts and academic restructuring to stay afloat. The changes reflect broader challenges in higher education, including shrinking student pools, AI-driven job shifts and growing skepticism about college value.
When work-based learning is integrated directly into coursework, students don't have to choose between learning and earning or between academic success and career readiness.
State lawmakers in 2025 have pitched dozens of bills to "extend a web of control" over colleges and universities, according to a prominent watchdog group.
Students are investing in their futures. Colleges and universities must align curriculum with workforce realities and bring in outside expertise where it counts.
Institutions are discovering different ways to implement experiential learning to prepare the U.S. workforce for widescale technological transformations.
