Author: Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig
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Most leadership does not happen in grand announcements or strategic retreats. It unfolds in ordinary moments that rarely feel historic while they are happening. It appears in how a supervisor responds to a mistake, how a teacher frames expectations on the first day of class, how a manager defines success in a performance review, and…
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At the very moment when many of America’s most powerful universities turned away from responsibility and values, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) stepped forward, despite operating under conditions designed to limit their survival. During the early 1930s, Jewish intellectuals in Germany experienced rapid and devastating exclusion from academic life. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor…
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Last year, after I stepped down from executive academic administration, I had a very small plant that was basically dead. It was only about three inches high, sitting in a tiny green pot, delicate in a way that made its decline feel almost predetermined. The leaves were dry, thin, and drained of color, and there…
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Some of us watched the halftime show and cried. Others changed the channel. That difference tells you everything. If you were scrolling through Facebook or other media after the Super Bowl, what you saw depended entirely on your sphere of inclusion. Some timelines were full of joy, pride, and tears. Others filled instantly with the…
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The Uber and Lyft gig economy was just the rehearsal. There are already now websites where AI can give you a command to do a job or task it can’t do and then pay you without any human intervention… rent-a-human. The most important shift in work is not coming with a new job title or…
Cloaking Inequity 
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