“Caught in Transit” – by Saundra Tracy & Jeff Abernathy (Inside Higher Ed, 2010)

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As 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.”

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