by Barbara Gitenstein | Nov 13, 2022 | Blog
Love Beyond BoundariesOn October 29, 2022, my sister’s husband of 40 years, Sami, died after a long and painful struggle with cancer. I was so moved by Sami’s perseverance in the face of the bureaucracy that is the current medical profession and in awe of the bravery...
by Barbara Gitenstein | Sep 26, 2022 | Blog
Over the last several weeks, I have felt the heft of history everywhere—in the news, in plays, and in television series. The first outpouring of shock at a 96-year-old monarch’s death and the heartfelt appreciation for a life of service resonated with me. I was...
by Barbara Gitenstein | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
For immediate release Experience is the Angled Road: Memoir of an Academicby R. Barbara Gitenstein launched last weekBefore a private gathering of leaders from various domains of leadership, Barbara Gitenstein shared lessons from her career trajectory on building...
by Barbara Gitenstein | Aug 8, 2022 | Blog
In “The Silent Treatment: Why College Presidents Don’t Speak Out” (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 26, 2022), Eric Kelderman bases much of his analysis on a recent survey of college presidents. The article reads as an objective observation of the facts...
by Barbara Gitenstein | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog
I have been struggling recently in how to process the cataract of bad news and retain equanimity—reactionary SCOTUS decisions (reversing a half century of promise for women’s autonomy, inexplicable overturning of reasonable state decisions to protect the public from...
by Barbara Gitenstein | May 23, 2022 | Blog
This week’s news was permeated by unspeakable terror—in Buffalo, New York; Mariupol, Ukraine; Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The implacable drumbeat of all this violence leaves us almost inured to the horror. The repetition, the numbers, threaten to make us forget the...
