A Game of Uncommon Skill Leading the Modern

Grappling with the needs of trustees, students, parents, academic staff, and public policymakers, today's college and university presidents and chancellors face substantial--and risky--challenges. The author shares his insights with disarming clarity and candor. His broad experience elucidates the "uncommon skills" required to survive, and prosper, in the little-taught and rarely understood profession of university leadership.

Foreword

ix

Stanley O. Ikenberry

Acknowledgments

xv

Introduction

xvii

U.S. Colleges and Universities Today: Simply the Best

1

(4)

Students Not Fooled

5

(4)

The Faculty Remains

9

(4)

Trustees Are Human, Too

13

(4)

Courting the ``Older Students''---The Alumni

17

(4)

Some CEOs Fear the Media

21

(4)

Need for Public Relations

25

(2)

Judged by Their Appointees

27

(2)

The Provost, First Among Equals

29

(2)

Counselor Turned Bureaucrat

31

(2)

Importance of the ``Numbers Person''

33

(2)

The Aide, No Ego Required

35

(2)

Speak Less, Offer More

37

(2)

Role of the Support Staff

39

(2)

Knowing the Locals

41

(4)

The Presidential Search, Then and Now

45

(4)

What Leaders Must Do

49

(6)

One Step at a Time

55

(2)

Institutional Governance

57

(4)

President As Teacher

61

(2)

President As Fund-Raiser

63

(6)

Political Realities

69

(4)

Working with Governors, Legislators

73

(4)

The Spouse and Children

77

(4)

An Agent for Social Change

81

(4)

The Lost Weekend

85

(4)

Learning Connection

89

(6)

A Powerful Force, the Private Foundation

95

(6)

Major League Baseball and Higher Education

101

(8)

Parting Thoughts

109

(6)

Afterword: An Unanticipated Challenge

115

(4)

Readings

119

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A Game of Uncommon Skill Leading the Modern College and University

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