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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New President is magna cum laude grad of Brown and grad of Harvard Law looks like a great hire also former dean of Boston College Law School.[/quote]
Yes, but those are not the qualifications for an undergraduate college president. Just stating a fact; it’s incontrovertible unless — as I suspect is the case — you are completely ignorant as to how academia works. You can acknowledge that they bent the rules for him, because he obviously lavked the necessary qualifications, and still assert that he is doing a good job. It’s OK.[/quote]

Other SLACs have started to break from the model of a scholar/president. I know of at least one MBA president at a top 50 LAC. Shockingly, people have found that the skills required for great research and teaching don't necessarily overlap with the administrative and fundraising skills needed for higher ed administration.[/quote]

And the fact that the most recent batch of 'acting' Ivy presidents are actually hospital administrators more than scholars is not an accident either.[/quote]
Talking about primarily undergrad institutions. And, other than the Columbia journalst fiasco, those MDs you are referring to also have a Ph.D.[/quote]

But if they have not done research in 30 years, does it matter?  I agree that the core function of higher education institutions is to foster the development and sharing of new knowledge. But the primary task of the current higher ed president is to raise money.  While faculty with PhDs need to have control over core decisions on curriculum etc, I have no problem with administrators who are not research active.  And a JD is a terminal degree.[/quote]

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