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- This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend.
- About the Author: Patricia E. Salkin, J.D., Ph.D. is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the Graduate and Professional Division of Touro University.
- 352 Pages
- Education, Higher
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This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend. Many different pathways lawyers have taken to the presidency are discussed.
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This book documents the exponential increase in the number of lawyers tapped to serve as college and university presidents and explores the reasons behind this trend. Many different pathways lawyers have taken to the presidency are discussed.
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"[T]he final book on my list explores the job opportunities for lawyers who want to lead universities and colleges. For those of us who like statistics, this book is filled with helpful tables and charts. ... For everyone else, Dr. Salkin reinforces what most of us instinctively know: good lawyers make good leaders. ... That's not to say that other disciplines aren't also great in terms of turning out university and college presidents. They are. But this book lets us envision the possibility of such a career move for ourselves."
- Nancy B. Rapoport, Exemplary Legal Writing 2022 Book Recommendations, Green Bag Almanac & Reader
"May it Please the Campus does so. It is skillfully edited, bolstered, and documented with vivid tables and charts, and a stunning array of appendices and references that should prove to be catnip for academic readers. Yet the compelling text is wonderfully engaging, and accessible to both professional search firms, search committees, trustees and other audiences involved in academic hiring. ... Her book should prompt much needed conversations about the ingrained approaches to all kinds of academic searches. ... Such a reevaluation of academic appointments is... sorely needed and it should matter to anyone who believes that higher education is critical to the world adequately responding to the existential issues of our time. Dr. Salkin's work ... does a great service to the academy because it suggests many avenues for further consideration, study and eventually for action."
-- Nicholas W. Allard, ABA State and Local Government Law Section
"Salkin demonstrates that lawyers' skillsets make them particularly well equipped to handle the dynamic challenges facing university and college presidents. She also shows variances among types of schools, career paths, race, and sex, thereby revealing where legal training is most salient and, arguably, correlates with success as a candidate and a serving president.
Salkin has assembled a broad database, enhanced with scholarly references, participant quotes, and relevant anecdotes to illustrate key points. It is comprehensive, exploring the wide range of factors bearing on leadership challenges in higher education.
This is a valuable addition to the literature, and an especially helpful guide to those exploring leadership roles or participating in selection of leaders in our country's colleges and universities."
-- Timothy Fisher, Professor of Law and former Dean, University of Connecticut School of Law
"Dr. Salkin provides a wonderful new resource on an important trend in higher education leadership. She combines extensive new data--reaching from the 1700s all the way to the most recent decades, and analyzed from multiple angles--with thoughtful analysis of the reasons why attorneys may be selected for, and succeed at, college and university top leadership roles. Dr. Salkin's book is both insightful and inspiring, and its grounding in detailed historical facts should provide the basis for further analyses within higher education leadership studies. Her book is chock full of great history and context for all of higher education, not just its attorney leaders."
-- William F. Howard, Attorney, Senior Consultant for Academic Search, Inc., and former SUNY Senior Vice Chancellor
"Dr. Patricia Salkin's May it Please the Campus: Lawyers Leading Higher Education is a highly readable examination of a phenomenon that is shaping higher education--the rise of the lawyer president. Through extensive original research, Dr. Salkin reveals the extent to which universities and colleges have reshaped the traditional profile for presidencies to include leaders trained in law. What's more,
About the Author
Patricia E. Salkin, J.D., Ph.D. is the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the Graduate and Professional Division of Touro University. She is the former Dean of the Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center and previously served as Associate Dean, Director of the Government Law Center and the Raymond & Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.