We are facing unaccustomed financial, demographic and competitive pressures, and if we do not address them now, many of us won't be around in another 40 years. This does not mean changing our institutional missions. It means learning to adapt and take risks. We ask our students to take risks every day; now it is […]
Experts in higher education administration and management predict that 2015 will bring intense and sometimes surprising governance, financial and legal challenges to the sea of potential worries for university leaders. A few critical issues that will bubble to the surface involve financial health, academic performance, student wellness and continuity in leadership. Creating financial sustainability Answering […]
Timothy L. Killeen, vice chancellor for research and president of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, will become the 20th president of the University of Illinois system. He spent more than 20 years teaching and in administration at the University of Michigan, and he served as assistant director for geosciences at […]
Higher ed's reliance on adjunct faculty, hardly a secret anymore, has gotten much scrutiny in the past few years. Institutions of all types benefit from the fact that adjuncts—provided they don't become eligible for health benefits by working more than 30 hours a week—can be employed for a fraction of the investment needed for full-time […]
The longest-serving university president in the country, Norman Francis of Xavier University of Louisiana, will retire after the 2014-15 academic year, nearly 47 years after he took office. Francis, 83, is a 1952 Xavier graduate who was elected class president every year of his undergraduate study and student body president his senior year. In 1957, […]
The governing board of The University of Texas System has selected Admiral William H. McRaven, currently commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, to take over as chancellor in January 2015. A 1977 graduate of UT Austin's College of Communication, McRaven is best known for orchestrating the operation that led to the death of Osama […]
George W. Hynd has been named the sixth president of Oakland University (Mich.), succeeding Betty J. Youngblood, interim president since July 2013. Hynd formerly served as provost and executive vice president of academic affairs for the College of Charleston (S.C.). There, he created new undergraduate and graduate degree programs in African American studies, exercise science, […]
Ball State University has selected Paul W. Ferguson as its 15th president. He comes to the Indiana school from The University of Maine, where he has been president since 2011. Ferguson led a comprehensive strategic planning process there called "The Blue Sky Project," which focused on transforming both the undergraduate and graduate student experience. He […]
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was developed to encourage and enhance cardholder data security and to facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures globally. The PCI DSS has just been updated to version 3.0, effective January 1, 2014. Some of the changes have far-reaching impacts, and the new version […]
Last fall Cabrini College (Pa.) became one of only 17 colleges and universities in the United States to be recognized as a "Fair Trade College." (The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh was the first in 2008.) Fair trade is a model in which producers are paid above market, "fair trade" prices provided they meet specific labor, environmental […]
