Perspective analysis reveals leadership adaptations among former university leaders, highlighting the continuity between scientific training and institutional management.
When you spend your career as a scientist, the move into university administration can feel like an identity rupture. But according to Dame Alison Richard, former vice chancellor of Cambridge, and Peter Salovey, former president of Yale University, the shift is less dramatic — and more instructive — than most people expect.
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