The Identity Crisis Behind Mergers Higher Education
Psychology Today | 16.05.2026 01:11
Conversations around higher education mergers require explorations of identity, emotion, and systems. People do not respond to mergers simply because reporting lines change or departments reorganize. They respond because mergers disrupt meaning, belonging, relationships, status, and identity. What looks from the outside like resistance to change is often something much deeper: an attempt to preserve a sense of self within a shifting institutional landscape.
