Governance

Peter Eckel explores the ways the pandemic might take its toll on the search for talent at the top and what search committees and boards should do in response.

Leading national higher education advocacy groups and membership organizations were allocated more than $20 million in forgivable loans as part of the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program.

College and university governing boards must push their institutions to be forces for ending, rather than perpetuating, racism, write Carlton Brown, Richard Legon and Terrence MacTaggart.

Major donors including Koch officials expressed disapproval after Wichita State University's president canceled an Ivanka Trump commencement speech. The president's job was reportedly in jeopardy, but a special board meeting ended without comment on his future.

The University of Alaska system has for years struggled with declining enrollment and state funding. Forced into a corner, the system's Board of Regents approved massive academic and administrative cuts, but experts say it's not enough to survive long term.