The Sandbox

How do you know when it’s time to leave a presidency?

Your faithful Sandbox correspondent makes a trip to D.C. and has a lot of thoughts.

Sometimes a leader can be overshadowed by someone with sharper claws.

Poking the hornet’s nest of shared governance and tenure. Could it be that we might have to change things having to do with—gasp—the faculty?

One president offers a suggestion to reframe the narrative in ways that will resonate with those greedy bros in power. Another gives pointers on how to tell if you’re living under authoritarian rule.

Absolutely, we need brave leaders to speak out and defend what we do. But life is complicated. More for some than for others.

Meet Course Strat’s new editor in chief, Sara Custer.

“I never want to love my job so much I’m afraid to lose it” (said no faculty member ever).