Why college presidents need to break some furniture
Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, recalled in a conference how a stint on the presidential search committee of a small liberal-arts college showed him that college presidents are too timid:
"At the end of a long day of interviewing candidates in one of those soulless hotel conference rooms, a fellow committee member turned to me and said, 'If I hear one more goddamn thing about how I like to lead by consensus, I'm going to shoot myself.'"
Higher-education leaders, he said, have been too quiet, too passive and need to "break some furniture" in the struggle over future of liberal-arts education.
Read the Chronicle of Higher Education article here.
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