To be a better project leader or team manager, start by understanding the science behind mindful decision-making.

Cool comics, scholarships from Metallica, sign language at Starbucks coffee shop, and more. 

Mike O'Neill, senior vice president for university advancement at Villanova University, discusses Villanova's most recent fundraising campaign and how the university boosted alumni participation and doubled the number of students who contributed to the senior class gift. 

Anniversary celebrations can dazzle at any budget. Scaling ideas to work at any institution, with any size staff, is a dance between dreaming big and drilling down to what’s doable. 

This year’s eight Platinum Award recipients took on groundbreaking initiatives to strengthen their institutions and advance education. Here are eight takeaways from these global recipients.