The Imminent Crisis in College Leadership

At both public and independent institutions, academic leaders say presidential duties are inherently unattractive in comparison with their own jobs or those of faculty members. At state colleges, the added discouragement of "sunshine" laws depresses the number of potential candidates, who...

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Published in:The Chronicle of Higher Education 2010-09, Vol.57 (5)
Main Author: Ekman, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beginning Teachers
College administration
College presidents
Higher Education
Leadership
Officials and employees
Private Colleges
Trends
United States
Universities and colleges
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Summary:At both public and independent institutions, academic leaders say presidential duties are inherently unattractive in comparison with their own jobs or those of faculty members. At state colleges, the added discouragement of "sunshine" laws depresses the number of potential candidates, who do not want their candidacies for other positions to be widely known. More than anything else, however, it is the increasingly external orientation of presidential duties that best explains why only 30 percent of all chief academic officers (and just 24 percent of them at independent colleges) still aspire to become college presidents.
ISSN:0009-5982
1931-1362