Higher education leadership
Royal Holloway head discusses decentralising university leadership and tapping into the creative industry in Surrey
It defies history and logic to lay decades of failure by administrators, trustees and legislators at tenured professors’ door, says Harvey Graff
The American University in Cairo’s first Arab leader on helping people reskill, serving the community and taking on the ‘necessary evil’ of administration
The Gaza situation is no exception to the rule that truth-seeking requires the marrying of free expression with inclusion and respect, says Duncan Ivison
Complete careers rethink needed to allow ‘upshifts and downshifts’ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference
The University of Exeter’s vice-chancellor talks about partnering with businesses, including the controversial decision to keep working with Shell on sustainability
UC Davis’ chancellor, Gary May, has plenty of background in attracting minority students, but finds California’s decades-old ban on race-based admissions a formidable foe
Canterbury’s vice-chancellor contrasts her adopted island homeland with her native South Africa and reflects on the opportunities spawned by even the worst horrors
Daniel Diermeier reflects on traversing the increasingly polarised US political landscape and on disagreeing with staff and students pressing for the university to take sides
Folasade Ogunsola discusses her country’s battle with brain drain and universities’ search for ‘creative’ ways to combat funding shortfalls
Nancy Ip discusses how universities can boost their output of patents and support faculty entrepreneurs
Monterrey Institute of Technology’s president says it is setting aside ?46 million for international hires to compete with the global standard of living
University of Southern Queensland head makes case for teaching students in remote towns regionally to keep them and their skills in the community
As their flagship campus draws national alarm, professors protest Gordon Gee’s move to slash positions and programmes
Academia and the armed forces may seem worlds apart, but officer training has valuable lessons for university managers, says former Indian army veteran-turned-professor Vikas Rai Bhatnagar
University of Limerick president talks about putting in place university-wide structural changes to inspire cross-pollination between disciplines
The UK’s first Palestinian vice-chancellor discusses proving the value of creative degrees in a hostile climate, how to internationalise rural towns and what growing up with nine siblings can teach you about academic life
The Nottingham Trent vice-chancellor discusses using data to support students, avoiding strike action and why diversity conversations are too focused on Oxbridge
Asean governments and institutions have to focus on developing academic leaders to advance the region’s sector, says Norzaini Azman
Singapore Management University president Lily Kong says the country’s institutions ‘must carve their own path’
Hong Kong has ‘a special convening power’ that could attract partners from China and the Middle East, CUHK’s v-c tells Tiya Thomas-Alexander
When Rhodes and fees both fell and Africa’s top university appointed its third black leader, hopes were raised that South African higher education was moving into a new era of equality. But several years on, funding pressures and governance failures still abound. Patrick Jack reports from Cape Town
Clare Marchant to join University of Gloucestershire after six years leading the admissions service
Nation’s gender equity improves as Covid creates job openings and an appreciation of more welcoming work environments
Head of Melbourne University leads plaudits as rival chief accepts elevation
Historically black colleges offer a useful blueprint on how academic administrators can support progressive change, says John Silvanus Wilson Jr
Universities celebrate being invited to join elite network of research-intensive institutions
Running universities like companies has helped them look outwards, but they risk an exodus of young talent from relentless reforms
Takeover of private institution by larger public one ‘holds lessons’ for sectors haemorrhaging students due to demographic decline
Auckland v-c wants to use Māori knowledge and research on misinformation to help tackle UN goals
A rapidly declining student population makes closures inevitable – but scholars say where the axe falls should not perpetuate inequalities
Senior management may be responding to national requirements, but fundamental, sustainable change needs more work, says Pat O’Connor
Challenge of balancing huge international expansion with sustainability leaves academic-turned-politician urging careful thinking
DeSantis, in derisive showing at politically battered campus, enacts measure that also ends diversity hiring
After brief term leading NIH’s biggest division, former Harvard surgeon embraced as established talent at time of turmoil
Progress is being made on promoting women to top positions, but very few presidents hail from the former Communist bloc
University leaders under pressure to do more with less amid demands from students for a ‘great hybrid experience’
At formal inauguration, former Duke provost promises new interdisciplinary push, plus sees room to protect climate while keeping Koch funding
Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of Ron DeSantis
The rector of Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute takes charge of the world-leading medical school after the disruptions of a pandemic and an ethics scandal
Montana-based founder of Networked University idea eyes new way to aid students, share resources and, perhaps, bridge societal divides
Fayneese Miller, university’s first black president, to retire after months of battling over propriety of Muhammad painting in art class
In the wake of Jacinda Ardern’s and Nicola Sturgeon’s decisions to step down as leaders of their respective nations, university leaders and experts reflect on when is the right time to give up the biggest office on campus
When and how a leader’s tenure comes to an end can be down to many factors – what lessons can be learned from others who have served their time?
Jason Wingard agrees to leave after less than two years in charge
As fierce partisanship silences US academics, a fired leader gets an even bigger job that rewards his resistance
Hate campaign directed towards America’s chief pandemic scientist makes it harder to find permanent leader for world’s biggest research funder
Amid nationwide campaign to restrict LGBTQ rights, head of public institution forbids fundraiser on grounds that drag is ‘misogyny’
As political turmoil mounts in India, Jamia Millia Islamia v-c says she will protect students, but suspend those who go ‘too far’
As well-connected academic prepares to take the helm at her alma mater’s branch campus, she reflects on the opportunities – and challenges – for the institution and the nation
After claims of image manipulation in papers by Marc Tessier-Lavigne, neuroscientist promises vindication amid signs of faculty unease
Students at prominent all-female college vote to endorse admission of transgender male and non-binary students, but leadership refuses
Memorial University president apologises and takes paid break after questions on strength of her claims of indigenous ancestry
Data reveals that 48 universities in the top 200 have female presidents or vice-chancellors
Domestic violence expert and film director becomes latest in line of women heading major US institutions
Answering congressional call after George Floyd killing, National Academies’ expert panel sees value in pressuring those controlling resources
Five others left in critical condition in latest episode of US gun violence
The idea of academic leadership has been largely reduced to management. But alternative HE visions are still being produced, says Ronald Barnett
After a tumultuous 2022, what will the new year bring for higher education? Some of the UK sector’s respected crystal-ball gazers offer their predictions for 2023
Academics Peter Mathieson and Vernon Bogdanor among those knighted for services to their disciplines or the sector
