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Reflective Leadership in the New Year: Aligning Personal and Institutional Goals
The start of a new year often brings renewed energy, fresh priorities, and institutional goal-setting across higher education. Strategic plans are revisited, accreditation timelines loom, enrollment targets are discussed, and performance metrics re-emerge. Yet amid...
Decemberβs Work: Choosing What Stays
December arrives quietly, but it carries weight. In higher education, December is not an ending. Itβs a hinge β a threshold between what has been demanded of us and what we may choose next. The semester still presses forward. Budgets tighten. Planning cycles peak. Yet...
Beating the Winter Blues in Academia: Taking Care of Your Mental Health
Winter in academia can feel like a double punch: short days, long nights, and an endless to-do list. Deadlines, teaching, researchβit all keeps piling up while the world outside feels gray and uninviting. For faculty, especially women of color who often shoulder extra...
What Still Counts? | Navigating Ambiguity in Higher Ed
In higher education, leadership used to be measured by stability β consistency, reliability, steadiness. But as institutions face chronic disruption, shifting metrics, and evolving expectations, the old scorecards no longer capture what leadership truly requires. In...
How Presidents Can Work with Faculty During Crises
Crises in higher education β whether financial, political, cultural, or public health-related β place enormous pressure on both institutional leaders and faculty. Presidents and academic leaders are often expected to provide direction, maintain morale, and make...
Haunted, Rebellious, Free β The Season of Letting Go
Every fall, I feel the same shift. The air thins, the light changes, and the workβsomehowβfeels heavier. Itβs not that the tasks are new. Itβs that the energy carrying them isnβt mine anymore. I can feel the echo of a former version of myself still trying to keep the...