In the same boat, but an academic press so it wonât be out until summer đ
On behalf of the Association for the Study of Higher Education's Council on Public Policy in Higher Education, I'm delighted to announce the winner of this year's Excellence in Public Policy Higher Education Award: Dr. Denisa Gandara!
A smorgasbord
There's a veritable cornucopia of higher ed legal news right now.
I feel like the new ADA regulation on public higher ed web content and mobile applications should be getting more attention. The bar for compliance is now higher, and most institutions weren't compliant to begin with. The rule goes into effect April 2026. www.uis.edu/news/new-tit....
Lordy, The Chron went and made a podcast episode about that Pomona English dept. messiness. I'm not sure what there is to learn about this particular case, except that the weird nature of our employment means that people who legitimately hate each other continue working together for a decade.
Yep. That logic means that there are few people left to keep things afloat. They are getting burned out and then resent the org.
I already see signs of it. Without membership and dues-driven organizations who can court sponsors, people just donât have the bandwidth to sustain these operations. And grad students as a source of labor and future membership is questionable.
One thing I expect to happen as higher ed contracts and faculty/staff get stretched even thinner is that conferences based on volunteer labor will struggle and diminish.
Yeah, I see the predicament but struggle with it. I also wonder if too much of the analysis is based on a certain type of institution. There are a lot of institutions out there needing different types of leaders.