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In this edition, we take up a number of areas of management and governance that have been misframed in ways that misdirect, overpromise, and in general make our hard jobs harder—and then we suggest different ways to think about the topics being addressed.
The Partnership on AI is building a diverse, multi-stakeholder organization for open and constructive dialogue on artificial intelligence.
Criminal justice reform advocates have cause to celebrate as a bipartisan group of senators filed legislation in clear opposition to AG Sessions’ recent order to federal prosecutors to pursue the harshest possible sentencing.
The U.S. Department of Education manages a college loan portfolio that exceeds $1 trillion. If its Financial Student Aid office were a bank, it would rank among the nation’s largest. Its administration, however, is questionable.
San Francisco is the first U.S. city to have a park or open space within a 10-minute walk for every resident. This “livable city” indicator was developed by the Trust for Public Land, which analyzes the 100 largest parks nationwide.
Two EU members are now under threat of the so-called “nuclear option.”
The institutionalization of people with disabilities is a national scandal. This ruling attempts to intervene in a system where inadequate community-based resources continue to be the norm.
As leaders, how do we help the country go from chaos to community? Revel in uncertainty and work it for all its worth.
We encourage you to review the list, read the documents that interest you, and think about their impact on you, your organization, and the causes you care about. Then, consider what actions you wish to take.
The “beating heart” of a dynamic democracy is embedded in our rights to free association, free speech, and a free press. We need all three—plus the courts—to make it all work.
Illinois’s two-year budget impasse is hurting its institutions of higher education, particularly small and medium four-year public universities, which are seeing a drop in enrollment.