"We must defend the principles that caused us to enter leadership in the first place," the AAC&U president says. "It's not easy, and it might be that you need to resign, but we must defend this."
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.
Deliberately integrating the humanities into the Georgia Institute of Technology's armada of world-class STEM-based academic programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the University Business Podcast.
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 1 at 12pm ET <br><br> Listen to this UB podcast with an expert in campus emissions reduction to learn how to leverage the Inflation Reduction Act to invest in renewable energy, reduce carbon footprints, attract students, and enhance institutional reputations.
While the model has recently drawn fanfare from policymakers, some higher education leaders and the public, others argue that evidence suggests that it will not only not work, but it will also backfire.
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 19 at 12 pm ET <br><br> In this conversation, Martha Wilson discusses an overview of the new standard and how the updates and changes affect higher education institutions. Additionally, learn best practices to assess your institution's present security posture and how to achieve success no matter where you are in your PCI compliance journey.
Date & Time: Thursday, March 7 at 12 pm ET
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In this podcast, a Tax Principal at CLA and the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Department of Facilities Management & Planning at the University of Denver discuss how the university’s leaders are including clean energy in capital project decisions and utilizing the clean energy tax credits that are now available.
Recent scandals across multiple esteemed athletic programs illustrate that hazing is not only associated with Greek life and can derive from a systemic problem.
A Department of Education memo in 2021 stated that disbursing Pell Grants and Federal Direct Student loans "could continue for a very limited time," but "these operations could also experience some level of disruption due to a lapse" during a shutdown.
Martin Kurzweil, vice president of educational transformation at the nonprofit Ithaka S+R, traces that back to a decline in enrollment. “Demographers will tell us that the generations of young people coming through after the baby boom, the cohort sizes, have decreased over time, and higher education is looking at what’s come to be known as […]
