Category: Wisdom
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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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When political violence erupts in America, we reach for easy explanations. The media wants a headline. Politicians want a talking point. Audiences want a villain that fits neatly into their worldview. So we seize on whatever detail stands out — a $15 political donation, a bullet casing scrawled with a slogan — and spin it…
Cloaking Inequity 