Andy Thomason

1 month ago | chronicle.com | Jack Stripling |Sarah BRown |Sarah Brown |Andy Thomason

In this week’s episode If you follow higher education like we do, you know that the sector is ripe for controversy. From misused money, to smoking-gun emails, to the occasional sex scandal, colleges and universities routinely make news for all the wrong reasons. But what makes for a delicious higher-ed controversy? And what can be learned from the embarrassing failures of otherwise respectable institutions?

Aug 14, 2024 | chronicle.com | Sarah Brown |Andy Thomason

Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, whose embattled presidency of Columbia University came to encapsulate a period of historic tumult in American higher education, resigned suddenly on Wednesday. She had led the institution for just over a year. Shafik was one of several Ivy League presidents who were grilled last academic year by Congressional lawmakers about their handling of anti-Semitism on their campuses following Hamas’s attack on Israel and the ensuing war.

Nov 13, 2023 | theassemblync.com | Andy Thomason

Taiwo Jaiyeoba can’t help himself. Sometimes he still tunes into Charlotte City Council meetings. Call it an old habit the city’s former planning director can’t break. And he’s bothered by what he sees. Take a May meeting where the council was, once again, fighting about the city’s zoning rules.

Jun 29, 2023 | chronicle.com | Andy Thomason |Sarah Brown

Jun 29, 2023 | chronicle.com | Andy Thomason |Sarah Brown