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Amy Crutchfield

Amy Crutchfield is a senior partner with the executive-search firm WittKieffer.

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Advice

6 Tips for Recruiting Leaders in Uncertain Times

By Amy Crutchfield July 8, 2025

Be prepared for executive searches to take longer and for candidates to require more convincing.

Advice

8 Ways for Search Committees to Be Inclusive

By Amy Crutchfield March 28, 2022

What does it mean to keep diversity and equity at the forefront of selecting a great candidate?

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Moving Up

Introverts and Interviews

By Amy Crutchfield January 9, 2017

Advice on making it through a hiring process that tends to reward extroverts.

More News

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Iced Out

Duke Administrators Accused of Bypassing Shared-Governance Process in Offering Buyouts

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'A New Era'

Higher-Ed Associations Pitch an Alternative to Trump’s Cap on Research Funding

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Endowment funds

The Nation’s Wealthiest Small Colleges Just Won a Big Tax Exemption

WASHINGTON, DISTICT OF COLUMBIA, UNITED STATES - 2025/04/14: A Pro-Palestinian demonstrator holding a sign with Release Mahmud Khalil written on it, stands in front of the ICE building while joining in a protest. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in front of the ICE building, demanding freedom for Mahmoud Khalil and all those targeted for speaking out against genocide in Palestine. Protesters demand an end to U.S. complicity and solidarity with the resistance in Gaza. (Photo by Probal Rashid/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Campus Activism

An Anonymous Group’s List of Purported Critics of Israel Helped Steer a U.S. Crackdown on Student Activists

From The Review

John T. Scopes as he stood before the judges stand and was sentenced, July 2025.

The Review | Essay

100 Years Ago, the Scopes Monkey Trial Discovered Academic Freedom

By John K. Wilson

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The Review | Opinion

A Damaging Endowment Tax Crosses the Finish Line

By Phillip Levine

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan keeps his emotions in check during a news conference, Monday, Nov. 14, 2022 in Charlottesville. Va. Authorities say three people have been killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at the University of Virginia and a student is in custody. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

The Review | Opinion

Jim Ryan’s Resignation Is a Warning

By Robert Zaretsky

Upcoming Events

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Keeping Your Institution Moving Forward in Turbulent Times

What It Really Takes to Serve Students’ Basic Needs: Housing