Ivy League: Help Wanted

[DFW HOYA]

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

Current status of Ivy League presidents:

Harvard: Open search following the six month term of Claudine Gay
Yale: Open search following retirement of Peter Salovey
Penn: Open search following 17 month term of Liz Magill
Cornell: Open, as Martha Pollack announced her retirement May 9.
Columbia: Not yet, but.... a 65-35 no-confidence vote in Minouche Shafik passed the faculty last week.
Dartmouth: Student no-confidence vote in Sian Leah Beilock passes 52-48 last week.

Meanwhile, Brown still seems to be OK and the Princeton president will join his class in the Reunion parade Saturday with 20,000 or so guests, because that's what they do.

[hoyatables]

The proud old Princeton Tiger is never at a loss…

[C86]

I wouldn’t worry too much about President Beilock’s job security at Dartmouth. She’s less than one year in the job; she appears to be popular with the alumni (although a small sample size, my wife and her friends think very highly of her); and a no-confidence vote of students is as predictive of the future as an Iowa State Fair straw poll two years before a presidential election. Plus, she’s pretty good at making hype videos.




I think a bigger threat would be another university trying to hire her.

[reformation]

We'd be lucky to have somebody like her. Have met her a few times, know others who know her well.

[C86]

May 26, 2024 23:44:52 GMT -5 reformation said:

We'd be lucky to have somebody like her. Have met her a few times, know others who know her well.

Dartmouth did very well not limiting their search to candidates who were alumni or insiders. Georgetown should do the same.

[RusskyHoya]

May 26, 2024 11:14:38 GMT -5 C86 said:

I wouldn’t worry too much about President Beilock’s job security at Dartmouth. She’s less than one year in the job; she appears to be popular with the alumni (although a small sample size, my wife and her friends think very highly of her); and a no-confidence vote of students is as predictive of the future as an Iowa State Fair straw poll two years before a presidential election. Plus, she’s pretty good at making hype videos.

I think a bigger threat would be another university trying to hire her.

Not just a vote of students, but also (some of) the faculty:

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Dartmouth College voted on Monday to censure the university’s president, Sian Leah Beilock, over her decision to summon the police to remove a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus, calling her action harmful to the community and disruptive to the university’s educational mission.

The censure motion was adopted by a vote of 183 to 163, according to Justin Anderson, a spokesman for Dartmouth.

The close vote illustrated the division on campus over Dr. Beilock’s decision on May 1, made just hours after the encampment had been erected on the college green. At the meeting, Dr. Beilock defended her actions, saying that she believed there was a reasonable and credible threat of violence.

Monday’s vote was believed to be the first censure vote against a president of Dartmouth in its 255-year history.

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Eighty-nine people were arrested, including two faculty members, as the police moved in to clear the encampment this month. One faculty member, Annelise Orleck, a labor historian, was knocked to the ground as she tried to grab her phone from a police officer.

Dr. Orleck, who once served as head of Jewish studies at Dartmouth, said on Monday that she was gratified at the vote. “I’m hoping that she and perhaps anyone who follows her, and maybe presidents on other campuses, hesitate for a second before they bring down violence on peaceful student protesters.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/us/dartmouth-president-beilock-censure.html

[DFW HOYA]

May 27, 2024 11:15:40 GMT -5 C86 said:

Dartmouth did very well not limiting their search to candidates who were alumni or insiders. Georgetown should do the same.

Alumni presidents are less common at Georgetown than you may think. Leo O'Donovan was the first alumnus hired as Georgetown president since 1912 and the second since 1882. O'Donovan never taught at GU nor held a dean's position prior to being selected--his connection was being on the board of directors.

[reformation]

Would not repeat the search process that chose O'Donovan--he was way over his head in the job

[SSHoya]

Yale names historian leading Stony Brook as its next president

www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/05/29/yale-new-president-maurie-mcinnis/