Brian Rosenberg is president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of ‘Whatever It Is, I’m Against It': Resistance to Change in Higher Education (Harvard Education Press, 2023).
Stories by This Author
The Review | Essay
How Our Growth-Obsessed Universities Spiraled Out of Control
They try to do everything, but are failing at their most important task.
The Review | Opinion
Where’s the Outrage? Universities Need to Speak Up.
The lack of response to the killing of Renee Nicole Good is shameful.
The Review | Opinion
Autocracy Is Eroding Higher Education
Colleges’ compromises with Trump risk the very thing they promise to protect.
The Review | Opinion
The University That Chose Surrender
Columbia’s capitulation proves higher ed can’t save itself.
The Review | Opinion
Colleges Can’t Trust the Federal Government. What Now?
Trump has turned financial support into an existential risk.
The Review | Opinion
Columbia Capitulated — But So Did the Rest of Higher Ed
The gravity of the university’s mistake should not obscure our widespread failure.
The Review | Opinion
Universities Need to Defend Themselves, Not Remain Neutral
Silence is not an option.
The Review | Essay
Boards of Trustees Are Bloated and Ineffectual
Higher ed has a governance problem.
The Review | Essay
The Impossible College Presidency
Leaders face unreasonable demands and intolerable critics.
The Review | Opinion
Trust in Higher Ed Was Low. It Just Got Lower.
The antisemitism hearing in the U.S. Congress was a reminder: Many people don’t like us.
