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Education
Leading today's educational institutions requires more than experience in this field. A university president or chancellor must possess exemplary management and strategic planning skills, unquestioned integrity, financial acumen, and a commitment to faculty and students in order to navigate the increasingly complex world of education.
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The business school dean redefined: New leadership requirements from the front lines of change in academia
The business school deans who will thrive in the coming years will have a different leadership profile from their predecessors, one that emphasizes strategic skills, enterprise management, innovation, and people and relationship effectiveness. All these will be required to forge ahead in business education in the organizationally flat world of academia, and during a time of flat enrollment.
Date:
11/28/2011
Authors:
Kenneth L.
Kring,
Stuart
Kaplan
Building on the Past: A New Approach to Higher Education Finance
This report focuses on how Vanderbilt University, with the help of Korn/Ferry International and PricewaterhouseCoopers, implemented a stronger, centralized finance function to support their ongoing effort to develop a “one university” culture that embraces a collaborative approach to executing its mission of being one of the greatest educational institutions in the world. This report discusses the value of this process and the three primary advantages that were implemented at a time when capital was hard to come by.
Date:
04/19/2010
Authors:
Chuck
Eldridge,
Kenneth L.
Kring
Tackling Higher Education’s Leadership Scarcity
Higher education leadership search committees are faced with an uncomfortable reality: it is increasingly difficult to find superior candidates. In addition, once a position is filled, another pain point often emerges – the average number of years that a leader stays in a particular position continues to decline. What was once considered questionable or marginal tenure in a role is becoming increasingly common and accepted. It is no less concerning, however – three years, for example, remains a very short time to demonstrate substantive leadership impact.
Date:
04/14/2009
Author:
David
Mead-Fox, Ph.D.
Letters to the Next President: Strengthening America's Foundation in Higher Education
American preeminence in higher education is at risk. As the 2008 presidential election nears, the future of education should clearly be an overriding issue among both the candidates and the American voting public.
Date:
09/18/2008
Author:
Stephen J.
Trachtenberg