Topic: leadership
Renaissance: The Role of Succession Planning in Diversifying the American College Presidency
As we seek to bring long-overdue inclusion to higher education, it’s time to reimagine the current pipeline to the presidency and eliminate the pitfalls historically marginalized people face. Ashley L. Gray explains how succession planning is a critical part of this process.
An Unrecognized Bias Contributing to the Gender Gap in the College Presidency
As we await the results of the new American College President Study, two researchers from Colgate University look at how the pathway to the presidency is different for men and women.
Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership
Capacity building for shared equity leadership is an ongoing investment meant to support and develop a repertoire of knowledge, skills, and dispositions to collectively lead equity-minded change efforts.
Why Climate Action Is in Higher Education’s Best Interest
Taking a leadership role on finding solutions to the climate crisis is an important way universities can remind the public that higher education benefits all of society—not just those who earn a degree, writes CU Boulder Chancellor Philip DiStefano.
Accountability for Campus Equity Is Everyone’s Work
Making progress on narrowing gaps and creating more inclusive and anti-racist campus environments means spreading the work to more faculty, staff, and administrators on campus rather than marginalizing it to one or two offices.
Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: How to Structure the Work
As colleges and universities continue to work to transform themselves into more equitable spaces, leaders are grappling with the best ways to address entrenched structural problems. Elizabeth Holcombe and Adrianna Kezar look at the different shared equity leadership models that can help campuses move forward.
Let’s Educate More and Better Leaders—The World Needs Them
Good leadership can give our work and lives meaning and foster stability, unity, innovation, and equity. With so much at stake, Scott Cowen, president emeritus of Tulane University, suggests that leadership studies should be a strategic priority and part of the core curriculum at all colleges.
Meeting Gen Z: Avoiding the Demographic Cliff and Preparing for Their Future
Colleges must understand and respond both to the concerns and needs of Gen Z and the evolving demands of the marketplace—and do it fast—or they will fail, writes Allegheny College President Hilary Link.
Helping Students Explore Transfer: How Phi Theta Kappa’s Transfer Honor Roll Can Help
Earning a bachelor’s degree is not as straightforward as it used to be. As the possible pathways have opened up, students need more intentional transfer policies to guide them through.
Trauma-informed Colleges Begin With Trauma-informed Leaders
As higher education institutions move into the post-pandemic era, those with trauma-informed leaders will be better positioned to meet new challenges in creative ways while promoting safe and healthy campus communities, writes Appalachian State’s Jason Lynch.