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Public Scholarship

Employees dealing with life’s hardships find institutional support to be highly uneven. How to fix that.

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Campus leaders must proactively affirm the necessity of DEI and protect the employees across institutions engaged in this work

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Amid state-budget cuts and political attacks, some institutions are neglecting their workers.

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Applicants for higher education jobs are weighing the low pay, exhaustive list of qualifications...

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We have a unique opportunity in higher ed to not chain ourselves to tradition.

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Faculty members aren't leaving in droves, but they are increasingly pulling away. 

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Higher ed used to be insulated from the whims of the labor market. No more. 

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They've been treated shamefully, but they're more resilient than people give them credit for.

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It's not just physical or psychological exhaustion, it's everything together.

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Although a crisis isn't the ideal time to build up trust capital, it's never too late for a leader to center honesty, humility and shared governance.

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It shouldn't take a surprise basketball win to bring attention to public regional universities. 

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Countless publications from policy centers, entrepreneurs, and journalists talk about how to fix college, but not enough books about higher education are written by scholars.

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One problem preoccupies my recent thinking more than others: Colleges still fail to adequately support faculty and staff members.

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Your Pay Is Terrible? You're Not Alone

Higher education has a compensation problem.

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Colleges have done a spectacularly bad job of managing talent.

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It hasn't just been a tough two years. It's been a tough two decades. 

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Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about.

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We can’t build a caring university while disregarding the wellbeing of people who signed up to lead.

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Leaders are exercising a sort of selective amnesia about the trauma of the past 18 months.

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A dose of humility can ensure those hard choices don't lead to irreparable harm.

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Colleges have a responsibility to pursue truth and encourage others to do the same.

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People did not want to be thanked, congratulated or assured that the institution will emerge from this crisis better and stronger.

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Big-time athletics and entrepreneurship are taking over one landmark at the University of Maryland. Is someplace on your campus next?

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