“Caught in Transit” – by Saundra Tracy & Jeff Abernathy (Inside Higher Ed, 2010)
Added 1/13/12 Resource Categories: Higher Education, Industry News, Presidential TransitionsAs written in Inside Higher Ed, July 14, 2010. Click on the link below to read the full article.
“Where does one learn how to navigate the dynamics of a presidential transition? Every college president has dedicated significant time to how to carry out the functions of a president. Each presidential candidate has spent untold hours determining how best to present oneself as a candidate. But few have planned how to act in this undefined space in which one is in the process of either bringing to an end or beginning a college presidency.
For the two of us — Saundra Tracy, the 12th president of Alma College, and Jeff Abernathy, the 13th — these were, to put it mildly, strange times.”