Governance

Two letters from faculty groups to the Board of Trustees emphasize the need for transparency in the presidential search process. One charges the outgoing president with eroding shared governance and ignoring faculty concerns.

Students have long called on colleges to divest their endowments from fossil fuels. Now organizers at MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Vanderbilt and Yale are deploying the law to end such investments.

As more colleges and universities use data analytics to understand student behaviors and how they move around campuses, privacy advocates and faculty members are pushing back on the intrusion.

Boards are more likely to view the mishandling of sexual misconduct as a serious liability, experts say. Castro will likely not be the last higher education executive to step down for this reason.

Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick threatens to end tenure over the teaching of critical race theory, further escalating the ongoing war on the teaching of CRT and other so-called divisive concepts in many states.

Curry College easily shifted classes online after being targeted by threats of violence. College officials used the technological know-how gleaned during the pandemic to keep students learning and safe.

Purdue University president Mitch Daniels’s comments about the growing campus gender gap draw criticism from engineering professors and students.