Congress appropriated the money. It is not reaching investigators. That gap, between what is on paper and what is actually happening in labs and grant offices across the country is not an accident. It is the product of two decades of structural decisions universities made during good times, and an a...

Why strategy must come before planning and why getting the order wrong is the most common mistake in higher education.

This piece synthesizes and extends the series on strategy, planning, and organizational design in research-intensive higher education. It is designed to stand alone as a framework,...

What Ben Horowitz's survival manual teaches us about the moment universities are actually in

There's a genre of advice circulating right now aimed at university leaders scrambling to respond to federal funding cuts and administrative award delays. It goes something like this: diversify your revenue...

Guest Contributor: Anna Campana, Sr. Pre-Award Research Administrator, R1 Cancer Center

Plaintiffs suing the U.S. Government over grant terminations early in 2025 had initial success in getting federal courts to stay agency actions. However, after the last few U.S. Supreme Court decisions, these st...