It takes special skills to run universities competently. One of the greatest, Charles Ping, died last week at 91.
Large universities are complex organizations, taking special skills to run competently while gaining the respect of the campus community. Having been around them since the 1950’s, and involved with many college presidents during over 20 years of writing extensively about higher education, I have encountered many great leaders. For example, Gordon Gee has completed 40 years running five important universities, and is witty, flamboyantly charismatic and a tremendous fund raiser.
He assembled an exceedingly able team of senior administrators who worked well together and had long tenures; He emphasized academic excellence, promoting a fine existing Honors Tutorial College and, with alumni support, creating a new Cutler Scholar program that shamelessly and successfully lured the best, brightest, and most virtuous students, many of whom could have attended first rate private schools;
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