Felecia Commodore – The Conversation

Claudine Gay will become Harvard’s second female president and first Black president in July 2023. Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

April 4, 2023

6 of 8 Ivy Leagues will soon have women as presidents — an expert explains why this matters

Felecia Commodore, Old Dominion University

Despite what’s happening on the most prestigious campuses, fewer than a third of presidents at American colleges and universities are women.

Demonstrators gather June 25, 2021, on University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., to demand that the university offer tenure to award-winning investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. AP Photo/Jonathan Drew

June 30, 2021

Trustees’ handling of Nikole Hannah‑Jones’ tenure application shows how university boards often fail the accountability test

Felecia Commodore, Old Dominion University and Demetri L. Morgan, Loyola University Chicago

University trustees are among the least-studied groups in higher education. Increasingly, they’re making news – as the focus of a crisis. That raises the question: To whom are they accountable?

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