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Quick Takes

New Presidents Named in August

Michelle Coach, dean of the School of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Connecticut State Community College, was appointed president...
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Business Cost-Cutting

August Cuts to Start the Academic Year

Harvard University cut more than 100 jobs last month amid a lengthy restructuring process. Multiple others also enacted smaller cuts.

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Career Advice

A University Is Not a President’s to Remake

A recent Inside Higher Ed interview describes in unusually candid terms an increasingly popular—and problematic—view of the president’s role.

By Judith Wilde

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Governance Executive Leadership

Bluefield State Fires President

The board cited concerns about transparency and financial oversight in firing President Darrin Martin. He’s the second president to leave under scrutiny in the last three years.

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Opinion
Views

Faculty Should Lead Way in Responding to Compact 2.0

No university should respond to Secretary McMahon’s letter without significant faculty involvement.

By Kumble Subbaswamy

Cover of the book “How Dare You: An HBCU President’s Fight for Half a Billion Dollars Owed—and the State’s Actions to Avoid Payment” next to a headshot of the author Glenda Baskin Glover, a Black woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a blue suit and red lipstick.
Government State Policy

The Fight for Fair Funding at One Historically Black Land-Grant University

A new book from the former president of Tennessee State University reveals her battle to regain $544 million in documented underfunding.

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Quick Takes

Arkansas Baptist College Board Terminates President

Arkansas Baptist College President William Walker Jr. was terminated for unspecified reasons Monday after being placed on leave last week...
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Columns Editor’s Note

Behind the Scenes of the College Presidency

For three years, The Sandbox has revealed a side of higher education leadership most of us will never see.

By Sara Custer