Sherri Hughes
Leading Through Uncertainty
These are tumultuous times for higher education. Universities are under fire for being too expensive and offering majors with seemingly no real-world applications. Student protests have roiled campuses, and research is under attack. Higher education leaders could be excused if they feel despair—or even consider abandoning the field altogether for calmer waters. But BU Wheelock […]
A Degree for This Moment
BU Wheelock’s new Executive Doctor of Education (EdD) in Higher Education Leadership has been in the works for several years, and program director Sherri Hughes says it feels like the program—whose inaugural cohort of students began in September 2025—is launching at exactly the right time. “As we watched higher ed get struck by another round […]
New Doctoral Program Engages Higher Ed Leaders
In today’s complex world, higher education leaders are expected to juggle many roles, including engaging a variety of stakeholders, leading initiatives that involve many constituencies, and creating a climate in which many voices are heard and valued, just to name a few. To help college and university leaders understand higher education’s role in the world […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for 2024
This fall, BU Wheelock welcomed ten new faculty members with a wide range of academic interests that include the intersection between artificial intelligence and the learning process, educational legislation, higher education leadership, and the neuroscience behind dyslexia and other reading disabilities. Learn more about our new faculty and the strengths they add to the BU […]