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Higher education insights and conversations

Advice for New and Aspiring Vice Presidents

Advice for new senior leaders from Principal Teresa Valerio Parrot and her fellow CASE conference faculty.

Communications Lessons From the Iowa Caucus

Hey Iowa! No pressure, but the whole world is watching. And unfortunately, the Iowa Democratic Party’s caucus blunder and (lack […]

Week in Review: August 2, 2019

What’s new this week: The 74 named “The Mastery Transcript Consortium Has Been Developing a Gradeless Transcript for College Admissions. […]

When Claudio Sanchez Called

I was pleased to see NPR legend Claudio Sanchez was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Education Writers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Prize. […]

Week in Review: April 12, 2019

What’s new this week: Congrats to Grinnell College and all of the Grinnell professors for a successful takeover of Academic Minute […]

Thoughts on the College Admissions Scandal

It’s always a little unsettling when higher education news spills into mass media. Rarely do any feel-good stories, stories that […]

Week in Review: February 1, 2019

In an essay for The Washington Post, Professor Daniel Reynolds of Grinnell College examines what it means to remember the Holocaust in […]

Quitting the News Cold Turkey: Revelations from a News Junkie

I returned to work this morning after nine days off spent in Great Smoky Mountain National Park and Gatlinburg, Tennessee. […]

Don’t Speak and Forever Hold Your Peace

The current academic year is ending for most institutions, which means many presidents and administrators are reviewing their performance over […]