The Sandbox

“I honestly do not know if [my children] would want that experience again if they were given the choice.”

Long-serving former presidents dish about bad board behavior.

How broken is higher ed? A current president lists the ways.

We want leaders to come and tell us what’s going on. Here are some tips to make the most of media visits.

Twenty years after co-founding Inside Higher Ed, Doug Lederman teaches us how to say goodbye. (Though his next chapter won’t be sitting under a vine and fig tree.)

The fun of fundraising: doing part of the president’s job that others find icky.

You cannot make this stuff up. Seriously. You just can’t.

What we talk about when we talk about talking. Or, what the experts say we should think about before we speak.