By Jack Stripling
Meet the new boss.
Same as the old boss.
In a troublingly stagnant portrait, the latest national survey of college presidents finds a profession dominated by white men who have hardly changed in more than a quarter century. They’re just older.
Today’s typical college leader is a married white male with a doctorate in education. He is 61 years old, up from 60 years old in 2006, according to the American Council on Education’s latest survey, “The American College President 2012.”
The survey, released at the association’s annual meeting, indicates that racial and ethnic minorities, who represent 13 percent of college presidents, are slightly less prevalent than they were in 2006, when 14 percent of college leaders were members of minority groups.
This report, which is the seventh produced by the association in 26 years, marks the first time in the survey’s history that a reduction in the percentage of minority presidents has been reported. At the time of the first survey, in 1986, minorities constituted 8 percent of college presidents.
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