November 21, 2008

Colleges Have Blind Spots in Presidential Searches

By PETER SCHMIDT

Colleges lag behind corporations when it comes to having the information they need to pick their top leaders, a group of prominent presidential-search consultants told education researchers at a conference in Florida this month.

For example, little is known about how well applicants from nontraditional backgrounds stack up against those from inside academe, said Jean A. Dowdall, a senior vice president of the search firm Witt/ Kieffer.

Also largely unstudied is the likely

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