From Rachel Toor
Do us a solid and, if you haven’t already, take a few moments to fill out our presidents' survey with Hanover Research. Your insights matter: The findings will be presented at ACE early next year and will help us better cover what you do throughout 2025. And while those results are seriously anonymous (even to us), I’m considering launching my own poll of Sandbox truth tellers: things like, “How has your appearance changed during your presidency?” and “What’s the ickiest thing a donor has ever said to you?”
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If you’re planning to attend the Council of Independent Colleges' Presidents Institute in San Antonio next month, we will be hosting a reception for our Insider members with the generous support of our friends at WittKieffer. Come meet our no-longer-so-new editor-in-chief, Sara Custer. Bring spouses. If you have president friends who aren’t members, forward this email and encourage them to join (and then I’ll liquor them up for off-the-record Sandbox stories).
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We will be on a publishing break until Jan. 4. Wishing you all the best for whatever holidays you celebrate. Or, at least, some sleep.
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Our Saturday morning readership knows that not only did Doug co-found Inside Higher Ed with the zany idea of putting journalistic content about our staid industry online and for free, he is also the work wife/éminence grise behind this zany newsletter.
Even though Doug is no longer on the payroll, he will continue to advise while we walk our dogs on opposite sides of the country. Now, free from journalistic constraint, he has, in the words of one former university president, been restored his First Amendment rights. So I fired off some questions.
(Note: Some presidents are having fun playing with AI.)