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February 6, 2025

Don Chu argues that department chairs should take a much more proactive role in confronting institutional budget challenges.

February 6, 2025

How to cope with new work obligations raining down from central administration and onto department heads.

January 29, 2025

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Adam Grant and other Wharton experts offer quick tips to enhance your leadership effectiveness.

January 23, 2025

Sending out feelers is a time-honored administrative tradition, but it backfires all too often in higher ed.

When we make changes that we prefer, we are in control.

January 12, 2025

Rugged flexibility is to be tough, determined, and durable, while also consciously responding to altered circumstances or conditions, and, like a palm tree in a storm, adapt and bend easily without breaking.

January 11, 2025

Adam Levy discusses some of the systemic changes needed to make the academic workplace both a happier and healthier place.

Giving Thanks

November 28, 2024

Building a culture of gratitude on campus can help shape a learning community for the better, M’hammed Abdous and Annette Finley-Croswhite write.

Giving Thanks

November 16, 2024

How to build authentic personal and professional friendships as you climb the administrative ranks.

October 23, 2024

Despite widespread rhetoric on social media about the importance of combating toxic workplaces and the expense associated with replacing versus retaining talent, the reality for many higher-education workers is that their experience on the job today isn’t substantially different from 2019 — raising the question of what, if anything, we learned from the pandemic.

October 21, 2024

Drawing from research and expert advice, this article outlines practical strategies to combat meeting inefficiency in higher education through better preparation, streamlined scheduling, and increased participant engagement.

October 9, 2024

The assumption is true that the higher you go in administration, the fewer friendships you’ll have on the campus — sometimes for good reason.

September 26, 2024

A lot has been said recently about authenticity in the workplace, but what does this mean when it comes to your relationship with your manager? Sure, you want to be genuine at work, but you also want to cultivate relationships that are high-functioning, predictable, and productive, and that serve your professional ambitions. So how can you develop good rules of thumb to decide what to share with your manager and what to keep to yourself?