July 23, 2024
At the start of the 2010–2011 academic year, in a packed lecture hall at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) President Freeman Hrabowski addressed… READ MORE
July 22, 2024
During the late 1990s, the University of Utah faced a number of formidable technology challenges. With the new millennium rapidly approaching, the university’s mainframe computer system appeared vulnerable to several… READ MORE
Sheldon Caplis knew that this pledge was a philanthropic coup. UMBC’s original campaign strategy had assumed that only $1.8 million of the institution’s $50 million “stretch” goal would come from… READ MORE
During a visit to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), David Oros stood on the roof of the ten story Administration Building as President Freeman Hrabowski completed one of… READ MORE
In August 1982 Arthur Levine arrived as the new President of troubled Bradford College with plans for a bold new curriculum. The Bradford Plan For A Practical Liberal Arts Education… READ MORE
July 19, 2024
The sun was beginning to set and it was still snowing. Students were preparing for the start of Winter Carnival. Through the large window in his office, Associate Dean Terry… READ MORE
Throughout the early 1990s, President Richard Pattenaude led the University of Southern Maine (USM) through a period of severe economic decline and expanding regional need. The university’s revenue sources changed… READ MORE
In 1994, University of Southern Maine President Richard Pattenaude sat with his administrative cabinet to review the institution’s financial condition. The recession of the early 1990s (between 1990 and 1994)… READ MORE
July 10, 2024
The political science department at York State College was previously led autocratically by a department chair who tightly controlled all aspects of the department. Upon his sudden death, a new… READ MORE
July 20, 2023
The Kansas Board of Regents demands that faculty be evaluated even after the conferral of tenure. In the face of strong faculty resistance, a special task force must decide how… READ MORE