Faculty By Lee Gardner Restive administrators and trustees may see tenure as a burden. But eliminating it could bring unanticipated costs. |
Shared Governance By Eric Kelderman It wasn’t just that professors thought the candidates to be chancellor were unqualified. They also saw their campus as the victim of longtime neglect by the system and the state. |
Politics and a Presidency By Jack Stripling Michigan State’s interim president, under pressure to resign after belittling an abuse victim, won’t go quietly. Here are a few possible scenarios that could lead to his dismissal. |
Research By Alexander C. Kafka A research psychologist at New York University asks his team to report their setbacks as well as their successes. |
Campus Speech By Teghan Simonton The university will no longer require student groups to pay security fees when they invite guest speakers. |
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Advice By David D. Perlmutter To be effective in senior administration, you have to think about the how of communication delivery, not just the what. |
Lingua Franca Ilan Stavans appreciates the remarkable talent of an announcer whose capacity to describe human behavior rivals Homerâs. |