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Divination Modalities and the Art of Scholarship Agreements
Fundraising may not technically be one of the magical arts, but keeping donors happy while serving institutional purposes can take superhuman skills.
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Why Can’t We Spend the Endowment?
All these tantalizing millions sit in those accounts, but we still might have to cut the budget? Huh?
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How to Ask for Money
Some key tips: seek donors’ advice before asking for money, don’t show desperation and remember that nobody owes you anything.
Opinion
Advice for Presidents From the Ghost of Diana Vreeland
What the former Vogue editor might have told today’s campus leaders about how to dress (and very much how not to).
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And Just Like That, She Became Unhinged
In search of a meal, an encounter with a vociferous opponent of student loan forgiveness.
Opinion
‘Don’t Buy Your Underwear in Town’
An unsuccessful search for the female president who first uttered those words, and other insights about being the first woman to lead an institution.
Opinion
Soulless Academic Year Opening Speeches
Might this be the year leaders change things up and, instead of the usual list of recent accomplishments and goals for the year, talk to us about uncertainty and how the world has changed?
Opinion
How Should Staff Interact with Faculty?
Some suggestions for how employees might behave (or maybe not) around their professorial colleagues.