About

Dr. Kevin R. McClure is Professor of Higher Education and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He also serves as Co-Director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges. Dr. McClure is an expert on college leadership, management, finance, and workplace culture, especially at broad-access institutions. He is author of The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation. Dr. McClure is also the co-editor of Regional Public Universities: Addressing Misconceptions and Analyzing Contributions and Unlocking Opportunity through Broadly Accessible Institutions. He writes the popular Working Better column for The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Websites

Dr. McClure’s Personal Website
Dr. McClure’s Column in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Book

The Caring University: Reimagining the Higher Education Workplace after the Great Resignation (Johns Hopkins University Press)

Recent Publications:

McClure, K. R., & Sallee, M. (2025). Research-based approaches to retain higher education staff. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.

Burmicky, J., McClure, K. R., & Ryu, W. (2024). Competencies for the college presidency: A national study of effective leadership in higher education. Academic Search.

McClure, K. R. (2024). Sick and still on the job. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here.

McClure, K. R. (2024). Colleges are still failing their employees. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here.

McClure, K. R., & Gannon, K. (2024). How college leaders can stand up for DEI workers and programs. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here.

McClure, K. R. (2024). Your pay is terrible? You’re not alone. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here. *Top 10 most read review essays of 2024

McClure, K. R., & Taylor, B. J. (2023). The hollowing out of higher education. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here.

McClure, K. R. (2022). Higher ed is a land of dead-end jobs. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Available here. *Top 10 most read articles of 2022

Orphan, C., & McClure, K. R. (2022). Recommitting to stewardship of place: Creating and sustaining thriving communities for the decades ahead. American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Burmicky, J., McClure, K. R., Gonzales, J., & McCoy, C. (2022). Equity-minded principles for presidential searches in higher education. American Council on Education.