When was the last time you checked your F You account? This personal escrow is the financial cushion—or your Plan B, akin to retirement, a career change or going back to your home country—that you liquidate if your job pushes you beyond your moral limit. Your account balance measures how effective you can be in your job and still be able to live with yourself.

A university president explained the concept of the F You account to the presidents and provosts gathered at Inside Higher Ed ’s inaugural U.S. Universities Summit this week at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. In light of the political and financial pressures on the college presidency, the president encouraged their peers to be ready to give up the job if they were forced to make decisions they didn’t agree with. T

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