The Post-Presidential Era - Commentary

Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the Science family of journals and former provost of Washington University in St. Louis and chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, writes: 

Surviving in a college presidency has gotten harder in the last year. The evidence is everywhere. The kind of scandal-induced turnover that was mainly centered in public universities has spread to the Ivy League. Protests that used to be acknowledged and waited out are now quickly leading to arrests and massive heartache. And deference to athletics and other revenue-producing parts of the university has increased. Those of us who clung to older ideals about college presidencies need to face the fact that those ideals are mostly gone.