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I was honestly surprised to see that her CV is nowhere the caliber I would expect from the president of Harvard.
by mupuff1234 3y ago
I was honestly surprised to see that her CV is nowhere the caliber I would expect from the president of Harvard.
- ejb999 3y ago[flagged]
- klyrs 3y agoSerious academics don't go into administration.
- ggm 3y agoYou're inviting people to go looking at people like Mark Oliphant, Brian Schmidt, Howard Florey, Fred Banting, Lord Thompson of Kelvin, Rutherford...
- BryantD 3y agoI think it’s probably worth doing some research on typical university President resumes. Laurence Summers had zero experience as a university administrator before he became President of Harvard University, although he had an impressive career otherwise. Ben Sasse is running a 50k student university; his previous experience is with a 1500 person college.
- wolverine876 3y agoSasse was a political appointment, to force Republican politics on the students and faculty. That's a recent GOP tactic, and has happened in Florida too (and probably other places).
- rafram 3y agoWhat do you actually expect to be on a university president's CV? The last two chancellors of UC Berkeley have been not-very-notable professors who worked their way up the administration ranks; the presidents of most Catholic universities are priests. It matters that you're a good manager, not that you've won the Nobel Prize.
- mupuff1234 3y agoYeah, I probably had wrong expectations, I kinda assumed that they would have significant success in something other than climbing the academic administration ladder. Larry Summers for example.
- elguyosupremo 3y agoPerhaps in contrast the president of Princeton was a Rhodes scholar and clerked for a Supreme Court justice before going to teaching and administration.
- rafram 3y agoYeah, Princeton seems to have a record of choosing more academically accomplished faculty to serve as president. My point is that that's not really typical.