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Academic Search released the first study to examine the competencies needed by college and university presidents in a post-pandemic world. Featuring seven key competencies, the study highlights necessary areas in which leaders need to be savvy, which will guide higher education executive leaders in preparing for the demands of the moment.

Resources from the 2024 Presidents Institute are now available online.

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College presidents explain why their institutions are members of the Council of Independent Colleges.

Cybersecurity and privacy research evolves constantly and rapidly to address current and emerging threats, and it is critical that educational and training curriculum evolve in lockstep with these advances. The National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program invites proposals for the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) program to support research into formal or […]

Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Spring 2023 NSF Virtual Grants Conference, to be held during the week of June 5, 2023.  Registration will open on Wednesday, May 10 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Just like the in-person grants conferences, the NSF Virtual Grants Conference is designed to give key insights into a wide range of […]

November 16, 2022 By Jillian Lederman The purpose of the university is to foster the next generation of independent thinkers, capable of vibrant intellectual discourse across differences. Thrust into the whirlwind of college life, many matriculating students’ only real guidance comes during first-year orientation. The beginning of college is an important time for staff and […]

December 3, 2020 By Cecelia Vieira Higher education administrators, tasked with maintaining a school’s commitments to free expression, address everything from open inquiry protections to speech code reforms. Looking beyond policies, the task of fostering a campus culture which both celebrates viewpoint diversity and acknowledges our country’s history of censorship can be especially challenging, yet […]

March 19, 2020 By Steven F. Hayward The ongoing campus controversies over free speech versus hate speech grind along deepening ruts that cannot escape two difficulties. The first is that a rigorous and intelligible definition of “hate speech” is elusive. The second is that current First Amendment jurisprudence defaults in favor of maximum protection for […]

September 9, 2019 By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill Freshmen are beginning to arrive on campuses across the country, often far from home for the first time, and meeting classmates from diverse cultural communities. The dorm lounges will be full of arguments about big political, cultural, and social issues over late-night pizza. Learning about the different cultural […]