June 14, 2024
The Impossible College Presidency
Brian Rosenberg, president emeritus of Macalester College and a visiting professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote: The combination of this year’s campus protests, the politically motivated scapegoating of higher education, economic stressors, social media, and a general coarsening of our public discourse has made things significantly worse for current presidents — or for those who were presidents before being chased from office.