📚 BriefCase: The Academic Journal Aggregator

Unhealthy security systems rarely fail overnight. They erode slowly, masked by routine and good intentions. But institutions have a critical responsibility to remain vigilant and to measure, test, and listen.

How to Embrace Lifelong Learning as a Non-negotiable for Career Growth

In a world shaped by rapid technological change and shifting economic forces, staying curious and committed to learning is the most powerful way to stay prepared.

OpenAI Drops Sora Short-Form AI Video Platform

OpenAI is reportedly dropping Sora, its generative AI model that creates short video clips from text prompts, images, or existing video inputs. The move upends the company's December partnership with The Walt Disney Company.

Microsoft Reduces Copilot Integrations in Windows 11

Microsoft is dialing back its aggressive Copilot push in Windows 11, promising a sweeping quality overhaul that puts performance and reliability ahead of AI feature expansion .

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Building Your Personal Brand with Social Media

Personal branding starts with self-awareness, not self-promotion. In this episode, we discuss how social media can be a powerful amplifier of a young professional's authentic strengths. It is a space where they can evolve and grow their brand.

Advancing AI Literacy: A Faculty Course Refresh Institute at Indiana Wesleyan University

Redesigning learning experiences, not just adding tools, can build faculty confidence and develop students’ critical, ethical, and applied AI literacy.

The Human Side of Data at Any Scale

Sophie and Jenay talk with Nadeem Syed of Western Governor's University and Shannon Shank of California Institute of the Arts about how institutions of any size can consider foundational approaches to data for informed decision-making.

Leaders Are Readers Q1 2026

The suggested readings in this installment of the "Leaders Are Readers" series offer inspiration and ideas for becoming a more present, peaceful, and purposeful leader in 2026.

GenAI and Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome

As generative artificial intelligence use expands, colleges and universities need clearer ways to recognize when support becomes dependence and how to protect student agency, authorship, and judgment.

📘 HigherEdJobs - Articles

Higher Ed Pay Raises Outpaced Inflation This Past Year, but Today’s Pay Still Falls Short of Pre-Pandemic Pay When Adjusted for Inflation

New research from CUPA-HR shows that most higher ed employees received pay increases typical of the years preceding the pandemic, after receiving historically high increases over the past few years.

How To Support Military-Connected Students: Meeting Evolving Needs

Dr. Monteigne Long and Dr. Paul Tontz discuss how campuses can better support military-connected students by shifting from transactional services to more holistic, student-centered approaches. They share what has worked in practice, including co-creating programs with students and using feedback to strengthen support systems.

Best of March from HigherEdJobs

Whether you're actively job searching or simply seeking to excel at your current institution, here are some editor's picks highlighting issues, trends, and tips from last month that may help you.

How To Write a Cover Letter That Rises Above the AI Slop

In a hiring landscape increasingly crowded with polished but indistinguishable AI-generated prose, the candidates who stand out will be the ones who sound unmistakably human.

Mediation Is a Profession -- and Good for the Resume

We often underestimate who qualifies to mediate at work. Claiming mediation as a skill and role can shift how others see us, how they engage with us, and what opportunities come our way.

📘 SAGE Publications Inc: Administrative Science Quarterly: Table of Contents

How Activists Collaboratively Divide the Labor of Making Change: The Case of LGBT Rights

Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 80-127, March 2026

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While theories at the crossroads of social movements and organizations have explored different strategies and challenges faced by insider and outsider activists, research examining their collaborations is just emerging. We contribute to this literature by ...

Reputation on the Line: How the Third-Party Dilemma Shapes Trust in High-Risk Work

Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 128-165, March 2026

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Despite scholars’ increasing acknowledgment of the role third parties can play in others’ trust decisions, we know very little about what motivates these parties’ information sharing. Our research examines this process via a qualitative, inductive study ...

Audience Entanglement: How Independent Creative Workers Experience the Pressures of Widespread Appeal on Digital Platforms

Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 215-260, March 2026

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Creative workers often seek a substantial audience for their work. Our findings reveal that a new struggle begins once they attain one. Existing theory fails to account for how creators conceive of and manage the relationship with their audience once ...

Near-Histories and Strategy Emergence: A Microhistorical Perspective

Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 1-44, March 2026

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Even when anticipated strategic decisions or actions do not materialize, they can still set in motion emergent dynamics with collateral consequences that lead to profound strategic consequences. Adopting a microhistorical lens, we elucidate the dynamics ...

CrossFit in the Crosshairs: A Community-Embedded Theory of Firm Responsiveness to Social Issues

Administrative Science Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 45-79, March 2026

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How do community characteristics shape organizational responses to social issues? While existing research has focused primarily on firm-level attributes or issue characteristics, we argue that a community’s social structure systematically affects how ...

📘 SAGE Publications Inc: Journal of Management: Table of Contents

Eyes on the Ball: Activist Campaigns and Management’s Response at the Operational Level

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1363-1393, April 2026

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More than 45% of the S&P 500 have been the target of activist investors. As a major shareholder in the firms they target, activist investors’ campaigns raise concerns over the firm’s poor performance and pose a threat to management’s control over the ...

How Memes Affect Constituents’ Social Approval and Intention to Support Firms

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1692-1727, April 2026

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Theorists have suggested that firms seek to maintain or increase their social approval—defined as constituents’ general affinity for a firm—due to the belief that such approval significantly influences support for the firm and other important firm ...

The Relationship Between Organizational Authenticity Perceptions and Employees’ Work Performance: Evidence From a Field Experiment

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1435-1464, April 2026

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The concept of organizational authenticity—the consistency between an organization’s espoused values and its lived practices—has garnered considerable interest in academic discourse. While the authenticity literature has paid much attention to external ...

Alignment in Mature Ecosystems: An Iterative Process Of Interorganizational Influence

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1465-1500, April 2026

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Extant empirical research on ecosystem alignment has offered little insight into how mature ecosystems align their members with a new value proposition. Our longitudinal empirical study of a seven-year hub-driven alignment initiative within the SOK led ...

The Time to Succeed: CEO Appointment Phase Entrainment and Post-Succession Firm Operational Performance

Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1529-1569, April 2026

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Given the inevitability of CEO successions and the importance of CEOs to firm performance, a stream of research explores the effects of new CEO appointments on post-succession firm performance. Yet, scholarly findings regarding the performance outcomes ...