| Leadership & Governance By Sarah Brown The university prospered under Lou Anna K. Simon’s leadership. But for many who witnessed that growth, the Nassar scandal demands hard questions about the consequences of that ambition. |
| Idea Lab By Lee Gardner Nontraditional leaders from business, NGOs, or government face pitfalls and suspicions. But seasoned administrators can acclimatize them to the strange new world of shared governance. |
| Students By Julian Wyllie The unnamed commencement marshal was sharply criticized for manhandling students at the ceremony. The president has apologized. |
| Faculty By Jack Stripling In the administration’s most forceful counterargument to date, the provost says the faculty aims to “mutilate” and “neuter” a controversial cost-cutting proposal. |
| In the States By Andy Thomason The group passed a resolution censuring Joe DiPietro for “administrative actions that directly and negatively affect” the campuses he oversees. |
| For current and would-be deans, raising money is a tough skill to master. And with colleges increasingly reliant on private donors, more administrators are expected to be good at it. This collection of articles from Idea Lab, our section on helping college leaders solve problems, offers insight for both new and experienced deans on how to ask for money and cultivate donors. Buy your copy in the Chronicle store. |
| Commentary By Todd Adams New leaders must be open to learning the culture of higher education, and faculty members must give them time. |
| Advice By David S. Rogawski and Juliano Ndoj The benefits of graduate students’ mentoring undergraduates in the lab flow in both directions. |
| Lingua Franca Geoff Pullum detects more than a hint of millennia-old bias in words like warmonger. |
