April 6, 2001

Community Colleges Face a Crisis of Leadership

By JAMILAH EVELYN

Most presidents will retire in the next decade, and the pool of replacements is shallow

Finding two-year-college presidents isn't as easy as it used to be.

Ask David B. Wolf, who is so concerned about a dearth of well-prepared applicants for the jobs in his home state of California that he helped start a project there last year to train community-college leaders.

"There was a day when you would get 70, 80, 90, well over 100 applicants, half of whom would have the full

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