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Beyond March: Supporting Women on the Path to the College Presidency

ACE — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 19:46:13 +0000

In the wake of Women’s History Month, it’s a good time to pause and reflect on the significance of our efforts to honor and uplift women. Amidst the flurry of acknowledgments and celebrations we see every March, there’s a deeper conversation to be had about how we support women on their professional journeys in higher education. We know the numbers. The ...

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Cultivating a Culture of Civility and Meaningful Dialogue on Campus During Elections

ACE — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 20:16:19 +0000

Elections always present a unique chance for university leaders to transform their campus into a space for constructive dialogue, educational opportunities, and critical thinking. In 2024, as divisive election rhetoric intensifies, we have a greater responsibility than ever to foster a culture of civil discourse on our campuses. A presidential election year is a perfect opportunity to lean in on pressing ...

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Beyond Crisis Management: How Presidents Can Create a Campus Where Everyone Belongs

ACE — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 16:31:47 +0000

At the start of 2024, the media narrative picked up where it left off before the holidays—painting a picture of U.S. college campuses immersed in division and unrest over a number of issues, particularly the response to the war between Israel and Hamas and the heated debate over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). But at thousands of colleges and universities around ...

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The College President’s Role During Times of Crisis

ACE — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:39:12 +0000

As we approach the end of 2023, in an era marked by heightened challenges around the world, it has never been more important for university presidents to serve as steadfast institutional leaders during times of crisis. Case in point: the COVID-19 pandemic tested every president and every campus beginning in March 2020 and continuing today. During this tumultuous period, I led ...

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Renaissance: The Role of Succession Planning in Diversifying the American College Presidency

ACE — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:52:34 +0000

This blog post is part of the American College President Study body of work generously supported by the TIAA Institute. The 2022 release of Renaissance, Beyoncé’s seventh solo album, took the world by storm. In “Break My Soul,” Beyoncé’s lyrics, accompanied by Big Freedia’s call for us to “release,” express the need for releasing the way things have been done in ...

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An Unrecognized Bias Contributing to the Gender Gap in the College Presidency

ACE — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:04:22 +0000

This blog post is part of the American College President Study body of work generously supported by the TIAA Institute. Since the founding of American higher education, college and university presidents have generally been White men—even initially at women’s colleges. While women have been outpacing men in degree attainment for decades, the leadership of colleges and universities has remained predominantly male. ...

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Capacity Building for Shared Equity Leadership

ACE — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:31:05 +0000

Over the past three years, the American Council on Education (ACE) and the University of Southern California (USC) have been working together to study new ways that campuses are thinking about leadership for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our research team identified an approach called shared equity leadership (SEL), which spreads responsibility for DEI work broadly across campus and creates culture ...

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Why Climate Action Is in Higher Education’s Best Interest

Laurie Arnston — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:52:06 +0000

The University of Colorado Boulder is proud to be cohosting the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit with the United Nations Human Rights Office on campus December 1–4. This landmark summit is an opportunity for worldwide participants to learn more about climate change through the lens of human rights from some of the world’s foremost experts. In the leadup to ...

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Accountability for Campus Equity Is Everyone’s Work

ACE — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:49:52 +0000

More than two years after the murder of George Floyd and the racial reckoning that arose in its wake, urgency around equity-minded and anti-racist work in higher education continues to increase. Student and community stakeholders are pressing college and university leaders for evidence of action and increased accountability around diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. Data that show progress on key ...

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Organizing Shared Equity Leadership: How to Structure the Work

ACE — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:53:57 +0000

As college and university campuses continue to work to transform themselves into more equitable, just, and anti-racist spaces, leaders are grappling with the best ways to undo structural inequities that have become deeply entrenched over time. In recent years, campuses have focused on the chief diversity officer (CDO) position as a mechanism for leading change on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). ...

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Let’s Educate More and Better Leaders—The World Needs Them

Laurie Arnston — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:46:04 +0000

Leadership is a fascinating phenomenon: it seems rare even when there is a plentitude of it. After a nearly 50-year career in higher education, decades on corporate and nonprofit boards, and years of teaching an undergraduate course on leadership, I have concluded that we need more and better leaders and leadership studies should be an integral part of the undergraduate curriculum. ...

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Meeting Gen Z: Avoiding the Demographic Cliff and Preparing for Their Future

Laurie Arnston — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 19:06:10 +0000

By Hilary L. Link Few higher education administrators have not read or heard of Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education, the landmark bestseller by economist Nathan D. Grawe. In it, Grawe predicts that many of the nation’s colleges and universities will face declining student enrollment rates in about five years, a reality that will require a thoughtful, strategic approach to ...

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