Training To Be A College President

I am writing this as I prepare to make brief comments at a meeting concerning criteria to be used in selecting my university’s (Ohio University) next president. I have observed that the more successful presidents at Ohio University have had some meaningful association with truly great universities like Harvard and Duke. Does that observation hold up to rigorous empirical examination at a broader sample of institutions? In an era when we pay extravagant salaries for university presidents, can we get some hints of probable success of a president by attributes gleamed from his or her past?

from Forbes Education