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KOTRYNA ZUKAUSKAITE ILLUSTRATION: LEADERSHIP VOID

August 16, 2016

Kotryna Zukauskaite’s illustration for Times Higher Education (THE) accompanied an article lamenting the dramatic change for the worse in the nature of academic leadership. Search firms are now the dominant filters for positions from dean upwards, but few academics understand the power that they wield. 

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"What went unmentioned was the possibility that the selection process was leading to the wrong people being hired. The irony is that search firms benefit from this failure since it ultimately leads to more searches."

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