Heidi Bostic • Dean, Helen Way Klingler College of Arts & Sciences • Marquette University • Milwaukee, WI
May 26, 2025
A brief introduction to four linked essays exploring how academic leaders can stay intellectually engaged and connected. Read more >
Heidi Bostic • Dean, Helen Way Klingler College of Arts & Sciences • Marquette University • Milwaukee, WI
May 26, 2025
How might academic leaders overcome the technocratic paradigm and enable their universities and units to flourish? We must lead by example and show that the life of the mind matters in what do we every day. This essay provides suggestions about how to bring our most deeply held convictions to bear in our work, inspiring the next generation of leaders. Read more >
Jeanne Petrolle • Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs • Columbia College Chicago • Chicago, IL
May 26, 2025
Leaders in higher education can promote civic engagement and provide cultural leadership by initiating or expanding on-campus conversations about the role of religion in public life. Democracy depends on equipping students and members of our wider communities to think critically about religion. Read more >
Meredith L. Goldsmith • Professor of English • Ursinus College • Collegeville, PA
May 26, 2025
Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s new book, Leading Generously: Tools for Transformation takes on the fundamental challenge of maintaining a generous stance toward others in a time of scarcity. Using nonprofit leadership as one of her guiding examples, she re-envisions higher education institutions as organizations based on an ethos of “mutual aid,” rather than a business model. At this moment of threat to higher education, Fitzpatrick’s stories of “generous leadership,” like her suggestions on how to cultivate generous habits of mind, are more welcome than ever. Read more >
Cassandra Conner • Dean, Tradition Campus • William Carey University • Hattiesburg, Mississippi
April 26, 2022
A quick refresher on an earlier approach to leading that may be of renewed interest in these times. Read more >
Mark Riccardi • Dean, School of Security and Global Studies • American Public University • Charles Town, West Virginia
April 23, 2020
Man encounters bear. Bear attacks man. Man survives. Wisdom ensues. Read more >
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