Topic summary
University president
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Chancellor (education).
United States
There are well-known problems with the American tradition of concentrating so much power and responsibility in a single person. American universities do not train faculty members and administrators to assume such a heavy burden. This leaves university presidents vulnerable to occupational burnout, either returning to the faculty or leaving academia for other nonprofit work or consulting. The average length of an American university president's term of office dropped from 8.5 years in 2006 to 5.9 years in 2023.