August 11, 2006

College Presidents Today

To the Editor:

The articles on governance in the June 23 issue ("Crisis of Confidence" and "Relations Between Presidents and Boards Top Agenda at Leadership Forum," The Chronicle) still minimize what is really happening in college administration today. The most pressing challenge for presidents lies not in what they are doing differently (more fund raising, developing new revenue sources, etc.) but in how skeptically presidents are viewed by trustees who, in many cases, have recently

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