Recruiting U.S. Administrators

A report in Newsweek suggests that more and more foreign universities are looking to U.S. institutions for top administrative talent.

With government support for higher education on the decrease, many foreign universities are looking for candidates with fund-raising expertise, and see it in top administrators at major American institutions. Newsweek gives, as examples, the recent hiring of Yale University provosts by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford.

“When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old Yale provost who will become Oxford’s vice chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in the United States, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the august institution.”