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Thursday, July 15, 2004

PICKIN' THE GUY WHO PICKS THE PICKERS

From the Southwest Florida Herald Tribune:

High Point University Sees Motivational Speaker as Next President

After weeks of negotiations and discussions, High Point University's board of trustees voted unanimously to recruit a local business consultant and inspirational speaker to run the school's day-to-day affairs.

..."There is a growing trend to recruit business people for academic leadership positions," [board chairman Richard] Budd said. "If you look at the challenges of private universities today, we need to recruit good students through our admissions department, and we need to educate them in more ways than we have in the past. We need a strong leader who will pick the academic dean or the chief financial offer...in business terms, I call it the guy who picks the pickers."