The seven traits higher education leaders need to drive change

Higher education is facing 'massive consolidation’, write four US consultants, and leaders will need specific qualities to navigate their communities through mergers or institutional restructure

Ricardo Azziz, Lloyd Jacobs, Richard Katzman, Bonita Jacobs

Center for Higher Education Mergers and Acquisitions, University of North Georgia, University of Toledo, Augusta University

North America

‘Universities must manufacture the work experience AI is deleting’

The seven traits higher education leaders need to drive change

Collaboration is not optional – and conservation science shows why

The colour of comprehension: how to make student understanding visible

The best teachers never stop learning

The best interdisciplinary research begins long before the first experiment

Overcome reading reluctance with in-class tasks

Campus Talks: Teaching strategies to get students reading and speaking up in class

Strong labs are built on shared ownership – with students as collaborators

How to establish a culture of care on campus

‘The more I improved my instructions, the better they worked as AI prompts’

For impactful teaching, remove barriers to learning – one decision at a time

Lessons in teaching excellence drawn from leading a marching band

Strategies for making online courses more impactful

Where the Nile’s waters meet: creating value through interdisciplinarity and collaboration

‘Great teaching does not mean more work. It means better choices’

Success in academia is more than a citation count

Great teachers simplify before they complicate

How applied theatre can help students examine the ethics of AI

Three steps to introduce transfer students to career services

International scholars’ real-world strategies in academic writing

Why AI literacy must include supporting student – and faculty – well-being

What the movement to integrate the arts and health can teach us about making research matter

Don’t just assemble an interdisciplinary research team, design one

‘Collaboration is not a slogan or aspiration but a deliberate educational practice’

Before you write a trade book, consider a reality check

If a chatbot can pass your assignment, you are grading the wrong thing

Training tomorrow’s citizen scientists in introductory science courses

Memorable teaching doesn’t just transfer knowledge – it transforms perspective

‘Belonging should not mean only that students feel welcome’

How to build buy-in for green lab practices

Teaching AI use in music for intercultural perspectives

Make AI literacy a foundational element of your course design

‘Success in academia needs a metric for how scholarship improves lives’

How to use AI voice cloning to accelerate online course design

A four-step writing protocol to teach students how to practise attention

Campus Talks: Backwards course design – from learning outcomes to assessment to activities

‘Higher education needs more of the empathetic mindset’

A simple research laboratory protocol to yield better scientists

Connecting the institutional dots for workforce readiness

Teaching is a verb: what sets good teachers apart

Embed career readiness throughout a student’s journey

Leveraging student agency in course design

‘Effective outreach closes the gap between understanding and action’

Campus Talks: Want to think bigger and achieve more? Then collaborate – an academic makes the case for collective research

Using AI to create the practice opportunities online students need

Why a unity lens is crucial in higher education

Five ways to turn students from spectators into collaborators

Treat outreach as an integral part of the research process

Effective outreach means translating research into action