Despite a number of financial and political challenges, many college presidents are optimistic about their own campuses, but less so about the state of higher education. College leaders across the U.S. are confident about their institution's finances, worried about waning public confidence in higher education and the upcoming presidential election, and ambivalent about artificial intelligence, the latest Inside Higher Ed survey of College and University Presidents shows.
Topics in the latest edition include presidential longevity, the president s role in student success, leadership during COVID, non-traditional president pathways and Black women college presidents.
This extensive collection offers a unique glimpse into the life and times of former U of A Chancellor David Gearhart as well as the significant contributions of his wife, Jane Gearhart.
Recent data indicate college presidential terms are getting shorter. Those findings were illustrated by five sudden presidential departures in late July. The end of July brought a flurry of sudden presidential resignations. Over the course of a week, presidents stepped down at Stanford University, Texas A&M University, Seton Hall University, Thomas Jefferson University and Berklee College of Music. Their reasons for resigning are as varied as the institutions they led, with some departing amid scrutiny and scandal while others left shrouded in mystery. Only Marc Tessier-Lavigne at Stanford had been on the job for more than five years.
FAYETTEVILLE Though he was born in Texas, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Chancellor Charles Robinson proudly insists he s "an Arkansan, now, and there s no place I d rather be."