Posts Tagged ‘college presidents’
Book Review: Propping Up Presidencies?
by Joseph M. Cronin
August 25, 2013
Presidencies Derailed: Why University Leaders Fail and How to Prevent It; Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald B. Kauvar, and E. Grady Bogue; The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2013.
Most books on the college presidency are either autobiographies or prescriptions for success. We avoid autopsies, diagnoses of leadership collapses and college president resignations/terminations. Usually no one wants to ...
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Comings and Goings: They’d Rather Be in Philadelphia?
by Shoshana Akins
February 11, 2011
Northeastern University Center for Labor Market Studies associate director Paul E. Harrington moved to Philadelphia-based Drexel University. Harrington has been a frequent contributor to NEJHE and to NEBHE events
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Joseph M. O’Keefe, S.J., will also leave leave Boston for Philly, departing as dean of Boston College's Lynch School of Education to become ...
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Holy Moly: McFarland to Step Down as Prez of Holy Cross
by John O. Harney
February 4, 2011
Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., announced he will be step down as the 31st president of the College of the Holy Cross once a successor is in place.
A computer scientist with an interest in the intersection of technology and ethics, McFarland was named president of the Worcester, Mass., Jesuit college in 2000. Before that, ...
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Night Thoughts on Academic Searches
by Stephen J. Trachtenberg
June 11, 2010
When a university, or any organization, and its recruiting firm set out to find a new leader, they usually begin and end in a delusion. They declare their intention to find the best person for the job and, once all the sorting and sifting are done, they announce that they have indeed found the best ...
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Tales from the Presidency: The Dartmouth and NYU Chapters
by Stephen J. Nelson
August 27, 2013
An expert on the college presidency weighs on on challenges facing presidents at Dartmouth and NYU ...
Cashing chips at Dartmouth? Dartmouth College did not need the round of controversial headlines that were about to come its way nor the cascade that was surely to follow. Only weeks in office as president, Philip Hanlon found his ...
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