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Barnard College President and Dartmouth College President-elect Sian Beilock argues that colleges can help students cultivate hope and counter the negative mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and our current social and political climate.
University of Utah President Taylor Randall calls on higher education institutions to rebuild public trust and prove their continued relevance through grit and by finding “innovative and meaningful solutions” to the challenges currently facing our students and our local and state communities.
The Philadelphia Inquirer interviewed Princeton University President and constitutional law expert Christopher Eisgruber on the pending Supreme Court decision on the use of affirmative action in admissions decisions and what Princeton is doing to prepare for it.
Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon and Barnard College President Sian Leah Beilock call on schools to diversify the STEM pipeline of students by breaking entry barriers to science and firing up undergraduates’ imaginations with the real-world problems they might solve through science.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President L. Rafael Reif urges the federal government to fund scientific and university research though initiatives like the CHIPS and Science Act to drive breakthroughs in semiconductor technology.
University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor Philip DiStefano discusses the need to address human rights challenges associated with climate change and the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit that the university recently hosted in collaboration with United Nations Human Rights.
AAU President Barbara R. Snyder and Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the Science family oif journals and former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill write about how universities, particularly research universities, must refocus on undergraduate education as a top priority.
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber argues that although academic rigor creates stress, the evidence shows that not all such stress is bad for mental health.
Michigan State University Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff writes about how MSU is preparing for a tech-driven future and contributing to the Michigan economy.
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago Professor of Law Geoffrey Stone write about the need for affirmative action and argue that gutting race-conscious admissions would be a disaster for Black Americans, who still have not recovered from more than three centuries of discrimination.
