Do our students think that their liberal education proves valuable in regard to their careers and finances in later life? A purely economic indicator seems to show that their answer to that question is Yes.

Perhaps we should step back and reexamine our criteria for commencement success. I believe forgoing a famous external speaker makes it possible to celebrate the day more fully, because it keeps the focus where it belongs.

When Penn State University's Graham Spanier was fired as president of the institution following the Jerry Sandusky-sex abuse scandal in November 2011,...

College and university officials must learn better how to communicate to audiences that are different from and react differently to the message that they deliver. Communication is the vehicle through which the case is made, relevancy is determined, and a future is assured.

The most important thing a board does is to hire and fire the president. If the board cannot rely on the president, if it feels it needs to run the college, it should get a new president.

American higher education is at a seminal moment in its history. The good news is that intersection of forces producing sweeping change represents a moment of unparalleled opportunity for faculty.

Given the enormous changes, challenges and opportunities facing the entire educational industry and every individual college, a critical foundation of effective organizational stewardship that will foster the imperatives of change is harmony.

The great social quest in American sport is to have one prominent, active, gay male athlete step forward and identify himself. But I have a similar...

This week, using six categories of investigation, The Guilfordian will assess the state of the college during Chabotar's 11-year term.

This is a volatile time for college presidents, who are under intense pressure from their boards and the government to modernize rapidly amid a revolution in online learning, information technology, and global education.

In May 1943, James B. Conant, the president of Harvard University, published an essay in The Atlantic Monthly titled “Wanted: American Radicals.” ...

From my experience, whenever I felt we had things under control, we ran into problems. Complacency breeds failure. Don't succumb to it. Instead, keep the pressure on everyone, including mainly you.

Although many presidents are reluctant to voice their opinions in public, for fear of offending key constituents (donors and/or legislators), I see little reason to decline an opportunity for using the "bully pulpit" of our offices.

I don't suspect that the call to action on gun safety is the start of presidents speaking out on every issue the country faces. In fact, on most of those issues, I am pretty certain we wouldn't agree. But on this one, we do agree and we have chosen to speak.

I decided that Dr. Kent Smith, the new president of Langston University, was the logical choice for the first interview for "Diverse Conversations." Recently, I sat down with him to talk about the first eight months of his presidency.

Given the amount of time and money invested in presidential searches, and the cost of failure, I'm convinced that the time is ripe for executive search professionals to reexamine how they approach their work and to make adjustments as warranted.

We are college and university presidents. We are parents. We are Republicans, Democrats and Independents. We urge both our president and Congress to take action on gun control now.

History requires that we not stand idly by. We will be judged by our actions in the days and weeks ahead, by how we answered, as a nation and as individuals, the question "what will we do?"

Hundreds of college presidents have signed an open letter to President Obama calling for tougher gun control laws and declaring their opposition to la...

-- Compensation for private college presidents has continued to drift upward, while the number crossing the $1 million barrier – a signal of pr...

Anticipating my reaction to leaving the campus that I had been leading for 13 years, the provost said, "No, you're not leaving Delhi. We want you to be president of both campuses." This unconventional move was inspired by a mandate across SUNY to do more with less.