Lucy Leske is a senior partner in the education practice of the executive-search firm WittKieffer.
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Advice
A remote leadership team may be just one more viable aspect of the new normal in higher education.
Advice
The old ways of running administrative searches haven’t exactly produced the diverse pool of leaders that higher education claims to want.
Advice
Just as institutions have asked professors to quickly move their teaching online, they can use technology to adapt the executive-hiring process and keep it moving forward.
Advice
Why campus chief executives and governing boards must aspire to creative abrasion and know how to achieve it.
Advice
What do you do when you’re not included in the new president’s plans?
Advice
If you are running a search without a consultant — and sometimes you should — do it under the right conditions.
Moving Up
Most hiring panels are designed to represent a diverse mix of people, yet they still bring with them hidden motives.