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Article: Who's who: Higher educations senior leadership.
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- Change
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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In dramatic contrast to our experience with the "young leaders," the task of "identifying" the most influential voices of the academy in 1997 was overwhelming: more than 600 names were mentioned in response to the surveys. The contrast was astonishing. While the effort to find the next leadership generation produced very few nominations, everyone had advice when asked to name today's most influential leaders.
In 1975, determining the most influential voices was not nearly so complicated. No one disputed that Clark Kerr was then the single most significant spokesperson for higher education; the three names that followed were equally obvious. Twenty years later, ...