Career Paths: Next in Line? The Succession Planning
Debate
In a recent roundtable of college and university
presidents, participants suggested that current institutional leaders
must make concerted efforts to better prepare future leaders to take the
helm.1 The concept of succession training has been a part of
corporate America for years. Yet, in higher education, the practice of
selecting one's successor is almost unheard of. . . .
Excerpted from the fall 2006 issue of The
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