A blog about leadership and other contemporary topics in higher education
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Academic Freedom in Teaching Institutions: A Student-Centric Approach
The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition. Academic freedom is essential to these purposes and applies to both teaching and research.…
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The HigherEdInk Reader: Whatever It is, I’m Against It, by Brian Rosenberg
Rosenberg, Brian. Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-68253-828-9 They say that change is the…
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Let’s All Do A Tuition Reset. You Go First.
Tuition resets, involving significant rate reductions, aim to boost applications and enrollment. However, this strategy faces challenges: competitors may follow suit, negating advantages, and the tactic may not…
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The Elusive Goal of AI Equity
Both users and observers of AI are rightly concerned about bias in AI. Recent research clearly indicates that this bias exists and has detrimental effects. Cem Delgemadi, an…
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The Iceberg Effect
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” So said Aristotle, and maybe some other Greek philosophers before him. Originally, Aristotle’s statement was about physics. But one of the most noteworthy uptakes…
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To Fee or Not to Fee: That Is the Question
Forbes recently reported that college tuition rose by less than the rate of inflation for the third consecutive year. Yet there is a cloud behind this silver lining. …
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