A higher ed leader heavyweight steps into her mother's alma mater. While a 20-year presidential tenure is one to celebrate, one decade-old stint is souring following academic cuts.
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted Thursday to end its contract with the foundation that funds the system flagship’s branch campus in Qatar, effectively ending the 20-year-old program. The vote to end the contract with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, means the school will start winding down the […]
The University of Idaho said Wednesday it would move forward with its planned affiliation with the for-profit University of Phoenix in a nearly $700 million deal after a judge dismissed the state attorney general’s lawsuit alleging the deal was done in violation of an open meetings law. Attorney General Raúl Labrador failed to prove the […]
Thanking UA President Robert Robbins for his leadership and cooperation, Arnold and Regent Fred DuVal said plans to centralize the university’s budget, as well as action taken to reduce spending late in the fall, were potentially successful steps to reverse course on 2023’s overspending—and said that widespread decentralized spending was the root cause of the […]
A group of University of California professors signed a public letter pushing back on the UC president’s efforts to develop what he described earlier this month as a “viewpoint-neutral history of the Middle East,” saying it violates their academic freedom. The letter stems from remarks by University of California President Michael V. Drake to the UC Board […]
Whether the president of a state system or a college within, leaders across the country have shifted their focus to new opportunities, sometimes crossing state lines.
The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) says the University of Arizona is currently ‘hemorrhaging’ money, now with the least amount of cash on hand since 2013. The schools says it’s the result of major investments that drained the university’s reserves, as well as some mistakes in accounting. University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins says […]
University of Nebraska President Ted Carter, at an NU Board of Regents meeting at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, said the work outlined this summer in a “Five-Point Plan” is ongoing to address a projected $58 million shortfall over the next two years. That plan is not just a drill to find cost savings, Carter […]
