Category: Wisdom
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The Trump administration’s announcement of 500 million dollars in redirected funding for historically Black colleges and universities and tribal colleges was rolled out with great fanfare. The Secretary of Education called it a massive investment. The headlines were positive. Social media posts quickly celebrated it as evidence of a new commitment to people of color.…
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Every organization talks about transformation, but the leaders tasked with making it happen often face a lonely road. Change agents are frequently stuck trying to move big ideas forward with few, if any, allies—while also serving as the go-to crisis managers when things go wrong. It’s a role that demands vision, resilience, and relentless energy,…
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For six years I served as both provost and dean. Those titles looked impressive on paper, but the cost was clear in hindsight: inboxes overflowing, back-to-back meetings stacked on top of each other, and the unrelenting sense that no matter how much you gave there was always another fire to put out. Over time, that…
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I am outraged by the reckless online comments of two faculty members at Great Lakes State University (GLSU) about Charlie Kirk, and I demanding today on Cloaking Inequity that the tenure of these Republican professors at GLSU be revoked immediately. I am glad that Harold Wexler, Great Lakes State University (GLSU) president, responded to concerns…
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“Democrats own this, 100%.” That was the declaration from Representative Nancy Mace in the hours after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah campus. When pressed by reporters about Republican accountability for other shootings, she snapped back: “Are you kidding me? Some raging leftist lunatic put a bullet through [Kirk’s] neck, and you want to…
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