December 10, 2004
When Showing a President the Door, Open It Carefully
College presidents leave their positions more frequently today than ever before. In the previous generation, the typical term of office might have been a decade or more. But the average length of service for higher education's chief executives has shortened significantly. By 1990 the average term had been reduced in some institutional categories to little more than five years. Various sources project that in a given year, one-fourth to one-third of the accredited colleges and universities in
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