Leadership intelligence: storm-tested universities offer lessons Leaders of US institutions that survived massive hurricane damage discuss what it takes to manage major crises Paul Basken 12月 4日
Canadian academics lament decline of shared governance Union members urged to regain influence by focusing on big-picture problems, but time constraints emerge as major challenge Paul Basken 12月 1日
Historically black colleges ahead on US graduate career readiness Annual NSSE survey of 400,000 US students finds gap between high confidence in job preparation and weaker assessment of skills Paul Basken 11月 29日
US university insures itself against Chinese student revenue drop University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says policy will provide protection if potential visa restriction, pandemic or trade war curbs enrolment Ellie Bothwell 11月 28日
Canadian institute loses boss in showdown over high-risk science University of British Columbia professor quits leadership of Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in protest at funding reforms Paul Basken 11月 26日
Canada’s surge in foreign students tests its tolerant spirit Colleges confront challenges around hostility on campus and concerns over plagiarism Paul Basken 11月 24日
Johns Hopkins says criticism of Bloomberg gift ‘misses the mark’ Ronald Daniels promises to take more students from poor backgrounds as observers say $1.8 billion donation would be better spent elsewhere Paul Basken 11月 23日
Leadership intelligence: should leaders still be active researchers? Jack Grove asks whether those who lead academic departments and universities can still realistically find the time to be effective researchers Jack Grove 11月 22日
University leaders cannot be public intellectuals A Twitter storm over a remark he made on diversity policy reminds Jeffrey Flier why he was so wary of speaking out while a Harvard dean Jeffrey Flier 11月 22日
Ex-Michigan State president charged with lying in sex abuse case Long-time university leader is third top MSU official charged criminally with a failure to properly account for decade-long pattern of abuse by team doctor Paul Basken 11月 21日
Academics cite work ‘they don’t know particularly well’ Survey also reveals citations have little influence over the content of a paper, raising questions over citation metrics David Matthews 11月 21日
PhD students in ‘financial jeopardy’ after funding award ‘error’ Several students at the University of Toronto have been ordered to repay money received during an award ceremony Ellie Bothwell 11月 20日
