One other observation: you get ONE opportunity to manage a crisis and rise to the challenge as a leader - or as president of a college or university. If you consult 20 people and test the waters before issuing a statement, it will be obvious- and it has been with the new generation of female presidents.
One other observation: you get ONE opportunity to manage a crisis and rise to the challenge as a leader - or as president of a college or university. If you consult 20 people and test the waters before issuing a statement, it will be obvious- and it has been with the new generation of female presidents.
One of two things happens when you fundamentally fail to show leadership, and issue weak and neutered statements comforting students etc etc - you damage your position and reputation, people remember that you had no core values or convictions, and everything you do thereafter is under a microscope. You parried when you could have been a Ben Sasse. So, you have now permanently damaged your reputation and either folks expect you to fail, or they hope you won't but you're on a very short leash. These schools are EXPECTING you to manage them out of a crisis and the newly appointed president of our kids small but elite Ivy, utterly failed to do that. The others cited by Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles were no better - either bigoted, afraid or incompetent. As a Wellesley graduate, I'm utterly disgusted.
One other observation: you get ONE opportunity to manage a crisis and rise to the challenge as a leader - or as president of a college or university. If you consult 20 people and test the waters before issuing a statement, it will be obvious- and it has been with the new generation of female presidents.
One of two things happens when you fundamentally fail to show leadership, and issue weak and neutered statements comforting students etc etc - you damage your position and reputation, people remember that you had no core values or convictions, and everything you do thereafter is under a microscope. You parried when you could have been a Ben Sasse. So, you have now permanently damaged your reputation and either folks expect you to fail, or they hope you won't but you're on a very short leash. These schools are EXPECTING you to manage them out of a crisis and the newly appointed president of our kids small but elite Ivy, utterly failed to do that. The others cited by Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles were no better - either bigoted, afraid or incompetent. As a Wellesley graduate, I'm utterly disgusted.