Originally published: “Lessons from Virginia” Inside Higher Ed, June 18, 2012 Only University of Virginia Rector (a.k.a. board chair) Helen E. Dragas and Vice Rector Mark J. Kington and perhaps the four other members of the Executive Committee of the Board...
Originally published: “Setting an Agenda: How Presidents Succeed or Fail in Promoting Change,” Inside Higher Ed, May 2, 2012 Most new college presidents today are confronted with what their institutions deem insufficient resources (although what seems...
Originally published: Change and Its Consequences, published in Liberal Education, Fall 2000 Most college administrators are being bombarded with reports urging change and describing how to effect it. At the same time, colleges and universities are faced with new...
Originally published: Charting the Future: Puget Sound’s Next Decade, February 1999 The Board of Trustees has asked me to define my sense of what our institutional goals should be for the coming decade. I have welcomed the exercise because it has served to clarify my...
Originally published: The Importance of Mission, The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa), Spring 1996 In the fall of 1993 the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees accepted an offer from Seattle University to assume sponsorship of the Puget Sound School of Law....
