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Leadership Pipeline for Future Presidents: Challenges and Solutions

Explore the state of presidential leadership planning, succession, and the pipeline development in higher education. Learn about the demographic trends, the need for diversity, and investing in future leaders. Discover strategies to ensure a strong leadership pipeline and address the challenges faced by aspiring presidents. Gain insights into rethinking the structure and demands of the presidency for the future.

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Leadership Pipeline for Future Presidents: Challenges and Solutions

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  1. Toward the Top: Future Presidential Leadership and the Realities of the Numbers Peter Eckel, Ph.D. Center for Effective Leadership www.agb.org

  2. Key Questions • Why focus now on presidential leadership planning, transition and succession? • What is the state of the leadership pipeline, short- and long-term? • What can be done to develop the pipeline?

  3. Why leadership for the future? • Anticipated turnover and little progress on diversity. • Lack of intentional investment in future leaders. • Higher education is in a high stakes environment, facing high expectations and difficult challenges with no tested solutions – multi-generational solutions.

  4. The Aging of Presidents: 1986 and 2006

  5. Women Presidents by Institution Type: 1986 to 2006

  6. Minority Presidents: 1986 and 2006

  7. Actual and Projected Number of Public High School Graduates, by Race/Ethnicity, 2001 to 2021 Source: WICHE, Knocking at the College Door.

  8. Facing Challenges with Multi-Generation Solutions • Obama Administration – “by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” (Canada leads at 55%) • 76% of Governors described initiatives to foster partnerships that link the research capacities of college and universities with business needs.

  9. Limited Investment in Leadership:On-Campus Leadership Programs, by Institutional Type

  10. CAO Participation in Formal Leadership Programs, by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

  11. The Pipeline Up

  12. First-Time Presidents’ Pathways to the Position: 2006 Academic Positions = 61%

  13. Lost Capacity? Next Career Steps, As Reported by Successors

  14. CAOs’ Presidential Aspirations, by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

  15. Select Reasons for Not Aspiring to a Presidency, by Minority Status

  16. Select Reasons for Not Aspiring to a Presidency, by Gender

  17. Select Reasons for Being Undecided, by Minority Status

  18. Select Reasons for Being Undecided, by Gender

  19. Perceptions of the Presidency

  20. New CAO Frustrations with Their Presidents • Too driven or Not driven enough • Insecure or Egotistical • Micro-manager or Absent • Indecisive or Autocratic • Complacent or Too many commitments

  21. The Initial Rung: Faculty at Four-year Institutions

  22. Succession Planning or Not?

  23. CAOs’ and Presidents’ Previous Institutions

  24. Number of CAO Career Moves

  25. Ensuring the Future Presidency • Restructure the CAO position (terminal position for 53%). • Expose future leaders to the joys of the presidency. • Seriously encourage talented people to prepare for a presidency early; intentionally support them. • Adopt recruitment (not search) approach; think differently about the hiring process and assumptions. • Explore different career ladders, but understand short-cuts rarely exist. • Provide deep sources of political capital to internal candidates. • Can we rethink the structure and demands of the presidency?

  26. Thank You

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