More Presidents Recruit Ex-Presidents for Their Institutions' Boards

By JULIANNE BASINGER

Former campus leaders provide perspective that trustees from the business world may lack

The business leaders on Princeton University's Board of Trustees had all seen the signs of the downturn

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in the economy. So those on the finance committee sitting around the board table

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