If there’s a third rail for presidents, it’s talking honestly about shared governance. Until I started hearing things in the Vegas that is this newsletter, I had no idea what they actually deal with ...

DEIA continues to be an important aspect of CREA’s leadership strategy. Here are our key takeaways from four collaborative sessions in 2025, and a ...

At the Jan. 22 Faculty Assembly meeting, Senate members discussed proposed changes to federal research funding, shared governance efforts and a range of ongoing campus issues.

In April, acting University President Claire Shipman, CC ’86, SIPA ’94 shared two new measures to investigate the role of the University Senate, marking the latest installment of the conflict between ...

People often speak about “getting a seat at the table”: accessing places where decisions unfold. Academe has its own tables, and it matters who sits at them and, even more, who does not. As doctoral ...

When Bruce Harreld first took the helm as the University of Iowa’s president in 2015, members of the four shared governance branches were initially hesitant. Harreld’s appointment came after he was ...

Image: Rob Robinson, ComplexDiscovery with AI. ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: As global leaders prepare to gather in Tallinn for the Digital Summit 2025, a walk through Estonia’s Soviet-occupied past ...