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When we inevitably trace innocent deaths in the community back to universities like Texas Tech, I fully hope presidents like this are held to account.https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-24/coronavirus-surging-college-towns-wo

I’d love to see examples of higher ed leaders whose big vision was simply to create an organization with conditions in place for all people to thrive. Too often these

Today, I’m thinking about the ways in which the large public research university is the higher education institution type most incompatible with Covid-19. Some of the things I’ll list aren’t

Appreciate this story from @franciediep on UNC Pembroke, a Native American-Serving, Non-tribal Institution in southeastern NC. This story shows *precisely* why we need federal support to prevent the type of

1. What we’re seeing right now from colleges in terms of their responses to COVID is unmistakably a product of privatization. And COVID will likely intensify privatization processes in higher

Although Fauci works very hard to avoid definitive statements, I worry about how this one may influence college leaders’ decision-making.https://twitter.com/jackstripling/status/1264029006040621057 I’ve been trying to square the push fo

Insufficient government support for higher ed, exacerbating years of underinvestment, means we are forcing boards to choose between institutions dying or people dying. (1/2)https://www.chronicle.com/article/Are-Colleges-Ready-for-a/248710 That should

On the value of “systemness,” or public college systems working as one unit rather than as a conglomerate of independent colleges. Collaboration, not competition or closure, is the way forward.https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/22/financial-