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A new dean learns just how much time he must spend behind his closed, decoration-free, joyless door.
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Every interim president has two universal responsibilities, no matter the institution.
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When you're second in command, how do you know when to be a prophet and when to be a politician?
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"Fit" is the reason you cannot take the human out of the hiring process and why that process will never be perfect.
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Here's why many central administrators say the hardest job in the university is being a department head.
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Just as a search committee prepared to make its choice, ugly gossip emerged about the top candidate. Did it matter?
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Telling a joke in a job interview is almost always a mistake, but that's not the only way candidates can show they are funny.
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Like it or not, your institution's list of potential leaders is dictated by the laws of supply and demand.
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As more CEO's become college trustees, they are bringing business concepts with them, and that's not always a good thing.
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The search went according to plan, the board made its choice, and then the bloggers went on the offensive.
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Too many candidates for administrative jobs seem unable to control their instinct to talk.
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Technology in the search process is most useful, and most dangerous, when you become a finalist for a top administrative post.
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Everyone in the room had served on a search committee, yet they all had questions about how the hiring process works.
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You can't predict a campus crisis, but you can prepare for what you should do if it happens on your watch.
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Candidates endure a lot in academe for administrative jobs that they only think they may want.
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Academe is slavishly committed to a search process that too often wrings the leadership out of a candidate pool.
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Search committees need to accept that presidential tenures are getting shorter and stop searching for Supercandidates who will stay forever.
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Succession planning is all the rage in the corporate sector; so why not in higher education?
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No question is more likely to trip up administrative job candidates than the one about why they want the job.
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A lawyer who specializes in presidential contracts looks at the compensation awarded to 25 university presidents who are leading billion-dollar campaigns.
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What the presidents earn at the 25 universities involved in billion-dollar campaign initiatives.
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Faculty members are finally starting to understand that someone who looks like them is not the best candidate for today's top administrative jobs.
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An almost unbridgeable, us-versus-them gulf between professors and administrators drives one vice president to give up trying.
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Considering a career in academic administration? Here's what you need to think about.
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A vice president talks to his fellow administrators about what they want from their governing boards -- and what they don't want.
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Sometimes it's not the hiring committee that messes up the search -- it's the applicant.
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The last gift a thoughtful president gives to an institution is a graceful exit.
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The opportunities to make a mess of the hiring process are abundant for search committees.
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The price of the generous compensation being offered to new presidents is tougher governing boards.
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A search consultant offers tips on how hiring committees can find and attract good prospects.
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Administrators who accept a temporary appointment and also apply for the permanent job can expect a rough ride.
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As a presidential spouse, you are considered ancillary but anything you do and say may come back to bite you.
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Here's how trustees can keep their president's compensation from being challenged by tax auditors.
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Unsuccessful in your last administrative job search? A search consultant suggests a few reasons why.
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Taking the time to put together an effective panel is the first step toward a successful search.
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A former provost offers advice on managing the minefield that is the tenure process.
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How should administrative search committees handle negative comments from references?
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How should candidates for administrative jobs deal with negative comments from their references?
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Temporary appointees may claim that they don't want the permanent post, but what if they secretly do?
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A search consultant talks to college presidents about how they juggle work and family.
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The role of chief academic officers has been marginalized, but they're still the ones who get things done.
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One of the best legacies that a president can leave his or her successor is a strong management team.
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For trustees, the challenge is setting the president's salary high enough to attract the best candidates, but not so high that it incites controversy.
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How can newly appointed presidents get a good compensation package without appearing greedy?
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Even though they might not use search consultants, hiring committees can employ their tactics.
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Whether college presidents have a good relationship with the news media depends, in large measure, on the president.
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The administrative hiring process is filled with traps. Here are some to avoid.
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Why do problems of style and self-presentation seem to plague female candidates more than male ones?
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It's time to move away from the outdated notion of "two for the price of one."
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A new president arrives. Will the vice presidents keep their jobs? Will they even want to?
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A college presidency is a 24/7 job. Once it's over, it's time to bask in the joys of a normal life.
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The former provost of the now-defunct Trinity College of Vermont describes what it was like to shut it down.
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Sometimes internal candidates have a lock on the job. But what happens when they aren't selected?
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Jean Dowdall looks at the most common deceptions by candidates and committees in the search process.
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A lawyer who has worked for both presidents and trustees warns of the pitfalls that can lead the two to part ways.
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Presidents get, and need, a lot of advice. Here's how to make sense of it all.
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So you're ready to take on administrative duties? It's time to give your faculty CV a conversion.
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Sometimes a lateral career move, or even a downward one, can be the right move.
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A lawyer who negotiates presidential contracts says nonsalary benefits can get lost in the rush to sign an agreement.
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The first weeks and months of a new administrative appointment are critical to your long-term success in the job.
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Handling the potentially controversial decision of where a president lives.
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A lawyer who negotiates presidential contracts looks at the practice of foundations' supplementing executive salaries at public institutions.
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Search committees and candidates face special issues in hiring senior executives for religious institutions.
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Milton Greenberg offers an administrator's guide to the faculty mind.
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Jean Dowdall looks at how presidential search committees sometimes undermine their own efforts.
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Even the most promising administrative job candidates can fall short in a job interview.
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