Retired HBCU Presidents Start Search Firm for Black-College Leaders


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TM2 , which is connected to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, will be the first executive-search firm focused exclusively on HBCUs, and it arrives at a critical time. Many historically black institutions struggle to maintain enrollment, and public HBCUs face dwindling state support. Such pressures compound the challenges for leaders, and have contributed to "fairly significant turnover of leadership in the black-college community," according to John W. Garland, a former president of Central State University and executive chairman of TM2 .

TM2 also plans to work with boards of trustees to help them understand what they should be looking for in candidates, and to set realistic expectations for new leaders. That promises to be an important aspect of the firm’s services, given the number of bitter feuds between boards of trustees and new presidents at historically black institutions in recent years. If conflicts do arise within the first 12 months, "we can be a third party to mediate that discussion," Mr. Garland says.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Retired-HBCU-Presidents-Start/235539
 

How can folks who messed up the HBCUs do right now? I doubt it. Just make sure Allen Keys ain't on there. Lol
 
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