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When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Susan Resneck Pierce discusses the troubling trend of problematic relations between board chairs and presidents. Reflecting on her experiences from 1992-2003, she highlights that despite the demands of their roles, both she and a fellow president enjoyed their work and found it rewarding, despite challenges. The piece emphasizes the importance of a positive relationship between board leadership and presidential roles for organizational success.

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Avoiding Failed Presidencies

Susan Resneck Pierce explores this growing threat to higher education and how presidential searches must change in response.

Beyond Incrementalism

Beyond Incrementalism

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy, writes Susan Resneck Pierce.

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Beyond Incrementalism

In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy, writes Susan Resneck Pierce.

An Unsentimental Education

An Unsentimental Education

The American University of Beirut can serve as an example to a crisis-ridden higher education sector in the United States.

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Leadership and Community in Tumultuous Times

Those of us who were college presidents on Sept. 11 understood that our larger society would be changed in significant ways. But even as we all feared an unknown future, including possible new terrorist attacks, we nevertheless sought to help our campuses both mourn the victims of that horrendous act and come together even more deliberately as a community.

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

5 Years Is Not Fast-Tracking

Far too many campuses don’t make it a priority to immediately deal with what they know can be impending disaster, argues Susan Resneck Pierce.

When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Talking Presidents Off the Ledge

Originally published: “Talking Presidents Off the Ledge,” Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2018 College presidents today are confronting challenges that they did not create and often can’t control, writes Susan Resneck Pierce. I’ve been receiving an...
When the Chair-President ‘Marriage’ Goes Sour

Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence

Originally published: “Becoming Acquainted With Ambivalence,” Inside Higher Ed, February 28, 2017 U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’s assertion that faculty members tell students what to say and think distorts a basic fact: most professors are...