Avoiding Failed Presidencies
Susan Resneck Pierce explores this growing threat to higher education and how presidential searches must change in response.
Susan Resneck Pierce explores this growing threat to higher education and how presidential searches must change in response.
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.
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.
The American University of Beirut can serve as an example to a crisis-ridden higher education sector in the United States.
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.