These unprecedented times have called me to give extra care and attention to how I carry out my leadership responsibilities to benefit the students, staff members and faculty members at our university. In approaching the divisional dean position, I recognized pre-emptively that my reflections and lessons learned during my first year might serve as a helpful resource for other people who are considering a leadership position in higher education.
Read MoreEven though many colleges and universities are making changes to career service centers in this time, I wanted to use this space to discuss the privileges I had participating in a job search and ask hiring committees to make changes to traditional hiring practices to move toward a more equitable model.
Read MoreThe Georgetown study finds that the return on a liberal arts education is not typically immediate - at 10 years, the median return is $62,000 - but over the decades of a career, it is solid.
Read MoreDirty Trick No. 1: "Accidentally" make a colleague look bad. Dirty Trick No. 2: Push a target off a "glass cliff." Dirty Trick No. 3: Go silent. Dirty Trick No. 4: Sow seeds of doubt. Dirty Trick No. 5: Slow things down.
Read MoreThe wealth premium has collapsed precipitously over the past 50 years.
Read MoreA couple months ago, my 17-year-old daughter's guidance counselor called her into his office to ask pretty much the only question that adults ask high school seniors: "What colleges are you applying to?" When Ella tossed off a handful of universities, he said, "Have you thought about going to art school?".
Read MoreThe dream of some administrators is a university where every student is a model student, adhering to disciplined patterns of behavior that are intimately quantified, surveilled and analyzed.
Read MoreIn the hope that they might help you think about news you hear and buildings you see, here are a few of the lessons that campus buildings have taught me over the years. American college campuses are full of memorable buildings - Jefferson's Rotunda at the U. of Virginia, Charles Z. Klauder's Heinz Chapel at the U. of Pittsburgh, Eero Saarinen's Ingalls Rink at Yale U. You could spend a month listing them and still miss many favorites.
Read More"At universities like mine they involve balancing overwhelming teaching loads and scant access to databases with the knowledge that there is very little chance of receiving external funding.”
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