Article: Fund raising and the college presidency in an era of uncertainty: from 1975 to the present. (1997)

Introduction

When Harvard President Neil Rudenstine took a leave of absence at the end of 1994 in order to recover from exhaustion and to undergo a battery of medical tests, several published reports cited fund-raising stress as one contributing factor [18, 42]. In assessing various analyses offered by the higher education community regarding this event, Robert Hahn, president of Johnson State College, stated, "Most observers have relied on familiar fallacies and myths." Hahn also noted, "The simplistic quality of most of the commentaries on Mr. Rudenstine's leave of absence suggests that much remains to be done to enlarge our understanding of the perils of ...

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