Today's colleges frequently use search firms to hire leaders. This three-part series asks what that means and what can be safely outsourced.
Judith Wilde is research professor and James Finkelstein is professor emeritus in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. They recently looked at decades of hiring for college presidencies and chancellorships, finding search firms are being used more and more often.
The pieces below detail more questions they asked about who is doing the hiring and how they think executive searches can be improved in higher ed.
Presidents are growing more diverse and staying for shorter stints, 40 years of hiring show. But using search firms in hiring may be the real change. Read the full article ➔
A review of nearly two dozen people leading college executive searches found few had experience in the big chair on campus. Read the full article ➔
Don't outsource control of a search, two higher ed leadership researchers say. Finding a president is too important and expensive of an undertaking. Read the full article ➔
