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Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Originally published: “Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence,” Inside Higher Ed, February 28, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s assertion that faculty members tell students what to say and think distorts a basic fact: most professors are...
Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Hope and Denial are Not Strategies

Originally published: “Hope and Denial are Not Strategies,” Inside Higher Ed, January 31, 2017 Today a great many American colleges and universities — ranging from those that, at least for now, seem reasonably secure to those that are hanging on by...
Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Shared Governance in Crisis

Originally published: “Shared Governance in Crisis,” Inside Higher Ed, February 16, 2016 The events in recent weeks at Mount St. Mary’s University and Suffolk University have abruptly shattered notions of shared governance, to the detriment of their...
Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Presidents and Mission

Originally published: “Presidents and Mission,” Inside Higher Ed , September 21, 2011 Several years ago, as I began the process of learning about a faith-based college in my role as the institution’s presidential search consultant, a member of the campus...