Over half of higher ed employees likely to seek another job, survey finds

Data from CUPA-HR also suggests workers are dissatisfied with a lack of opportunities to work remotely.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • July 22, 2022

Colleges are being hit by the Great Resignation. What can they do?

Retention and turnover were frequent topics at the National Association of College and University Business Officers' annual meeting. So were solutions.

By Rick Seltzer • July 22, 2022

Last week's big number: $975,000

A recap of last week's major higher ed news looks at the new University of Michigan president's compensation and contract.

By Higher Ed Dive Staff • July 18, 2022

U of Michigan won't give new president Santa Ono a faculty job if fired, breaking precedent

Mark Schlissel, the former president dismissed for an alleged inappropriate employee relationship, was allowed to keep his tenured professorship.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • July 15, 2022

U of Michigan picks Santa Ono as new president, months after ouster of Mark Schlissel

Ono, president and vice chancellor of the University of British Columbia, is one of the most prominent names in higher education leadership.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • July 13, 2022

Faculty focus on belonging can improve student experiences and grades, report finds

The Student Experience Project shares lessons from work with 295 professors.

By Laura Spitalniak • July 13, 2022

Researchers could only collect asset manager diversity data for 16 of 50 wealthy colleges

More than two-thirds of the wealthiest 25 private and 25 public colleges declined to share their asset manager rosters for analysis.

By Laura Spitalniak • July 7, 2022

Columbia U will skip next U.S. News rankings amid probe into data accuracy

The Ivy League institution said it was still reviewing allegations made by one of its professors that it was providing inaccurate information.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • July 1, 2022

'Accessibility is a journey': A DEI expert on disability rights

Employers can wait for a worker to request reasonable accommodations under the ADA, but Kelly Hermann asks: Why not be accommodating from the start?

By Caroline Colvin • July 1, 2022

New student housing slows from pace seen in 2010s

Just 26,000 new beds will be delivered by private developers this fall — a significant pullback from delivery rates through the previous decade.

By Mary Salmonsen • June 28, 2022

Higher ed leaders decry the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Some college leaders expressed concern and promised to help their students and employees retain access to abortions.

By Laura Spitalniak • June 27, 2022

Those of us who remember pre-Roe campuses recognize the challenges colleges now face

A former college president asks what institutions will do to prevent women's gains in higher ed from evaporating.

By Jo Ellen Parker • June 24, 2022

Last week’s big number: 70 bills to restrict college instruction

A recap of last week's major higher ed news includes an argument against laws targeting classrooms and shows how much colleges relied on relief funding.

By Higher Ed Dive Staff • June 13, 2022

Incoming Dillard president wants to bring the HBCU ‘to the table’

Rochelle Ford, currently an Elon University dean, sees room for lawmakers and corporations to learn what Dillard University does best.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • June 10, 2022

Restrictions threaten 'integrity of our system of higher education,' groups say

AAC&U and PEN America push back against laws and policymakers seeking to dictate what can be taught on campus.

By Rick Seltzer • June 8, 2022

Colleges dabble in development as high-priced housing markets squeeze their employees

Local conditions vary, but from Vermont to California, college leaders are seeking ways to make sure their students and employees can afford housing.

By Lilah Burke • June 6, 2022

Here's how Saint Joseph's closed its University of the Sciences acquisition

The Jesuit university's president and provost talk topics running from workforce and integration planning to navigating a controversy over contraception.

By Rick Seltzer • June 3, 2022

How Hampshire College is rebuilding its enrollment

"You have got to be very clear about what you do well and how what you do well matters," President Ed Wingenbach said.

By Rick Seltzer • May 27, 2022

College leaders on Uvalde shooting: 'unacceptable and heartbreaking'

Several college presidents called for gun control and culture change after the Texas elementary school shooting that killed children and teachers.

By Rick Seltzer • May 26, 2022

'Waiting for the next thing': What it's like teaching after a mass shooting

Educators are expected to teach through emotional and psychological side effects reaching far beyond communities impacted by tragedies.

By Naaz Modan • May 26, 2022

Attacks on new UW-Madison chancellor show how culture wars have come for college presidents

Experts say GOP rhetoric on selection of UCLA law dean Jennifer Mnookin undermines higher ed's autonomy and mission to serve the public good.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • May 20, 2022

Students, higher ed leaders diverge on post-COVID priorities

Survey says a quarter of North American colleges indicate they will stick to in-person teaching, but most students prefer a mixed course load.

By Laura Spitalniak • May 17, 2022

Colleges must improve their data use for racial equity efforts

In today's volatile political era, data can limit or expand what we understand about inequity on campus, argues a University of Michigan researcher.

By W. Carson Byrd • May 16, 2022

One year in, momentum builds from the Postsecondary Value Commission's work

Three members of the commission take stock of what higher ed has accomplished — and what is still to come.

By Mamie Voight, Mildred García and José Luis Cruz Rivera • May 12, 2022

Georgia system downsizes faculty role in presidential searches

Officials said a new process will bring consistency, but a faculty group argues the change flies in the face of shared governance.

By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf • May 10, 2022