What We Built For twelve years, from 2005 to 2017, I served as Vice President and W.K. Kellogg Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where I also directed the Thematic Faculty Hire Initiative — one of the most… Read More »Academic Governance Under Pressure: An Insider’s View of UT Austin
I read the recent New York Times article on the Department of Justice’s recruitment of prosecutors in a polarized political climate with a deep sense of recognition. The article describes a tension that has intensified in the current administration. In… Read More »A Personal and Professional Reflection: Public Service Is Not a Partisan Assignment
This week, the scientific community marked the passing of Dr. Gladys Mae West, an African American mathematician and one of the architects of the Global Positioning System, at age 95. Her life reminds us that some of the most consequential innovations… Read More »Hidden Figures in Plain Sight: Gladys West, the African American Mathematician Who Helped Map the World
As we bring 2025 to an end, volatility seems to be our new normal. The past five years have been fraught with continuous change. Starting with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we have faced social, political, economic, and technological upheavals.… Read More »When Chaos is the New Normal, Strategic Planning is Essential
By Dr. Gregory J. Vincent & Ludwig P. Gaines, J.D. Name, Image, and Likeness has officially entered its “new normal.” What started in 2021 as a wild, experimental marketplace is now a multi-billion-dollar ecosystem stretching from Power 4 football to… Read More »NIL 3.0: What the New Era — and High School NIL — Means for Families, Coaches, Student-Athletes and Schools
AUSTIN, TX — November 19, 2025 — Vincent Strategies is pleased to announce a new partnership with the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to develop a comprehensive Leadership Academy curriculum for executives and managers within attorney general offices across… Read More »Vincent Strategies Partners with National Association of Attorneys General to Develop Leadership Academy
Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community, and its philanthropy partner, Vincent Strategies, announce “Celebrating the Past, Funding the Future,” to celebrate and support Ujima’s ten years of excellence. Ujima was founded in 2015 to… Read More »Ujima, The National Center on Violence Against Women in the Black Community Celebrates 10 Years, Launches Campaign
By Ludwig P. Gaines, Co-Founder and President, 360 NIL Group — The summer of 2025 has brought an extraordinary wave of change to college athletics. For decades, the notion that student-athletes could receive direct compensation from their institutions was unthinkable.… Read More »Summer 2025 NIL Developments: A Tipping Point for College Athletics
Ludwig Gaines and I are pleased that our alma mater, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, has highlighted our commitment to empowering institutions like Howard University’s Mecca Society through the 360 NIL Group. Our work with the Mecca Society demonstrates how… Read More »HWS Leaders: Redefining Name, Image and Likeness
On June 20th, I had the honor of supporting our client, The Memorial Foundation, at their innovative Films at the Stone series at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. This groundbreaking program—the first and only outdoor film… Read More »Vincent Strategies Supports Memorial Foundation’s Films at the Stone