Robert A. Weisbuch, former president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and of Drew University, now leads Robert Weisbuch and Associates, a consultancy for liberal-arts colleges and universities.
Stories by This Author
Advice
It’s time to confer more money and authority on a position whose weakness in the campus hierarchy has always been a given.
Advice
A new book offers a prescription for how to “build a better graduate education.”
First Person
How can tuition-driven colleges approach the admissions pitch with substance?
First Person
Liberal-arts colleges need to embrace partnerships with other entities in a big way.
First Person
To tell 17-year-olds that they might have a chance to do something interesting—in four years—isn’t very persuasive.
First Person
This is what you may find once you lose your academic affiliation.
First Person
What led you to academe, and how might that provide clues for engaging your students?
A President's Fifth Year
You become an academic leader because you are liked but, once in the job, you had better get used to some degree of antipathy.