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The College of Saint Mary announced the selection of a new president. She backed out and will instead become president of Alvernia University, the institution she planned to leave.

How is a new president supposed to clean house? Dos and don'ts from a presidency-cut-short at U. of Wyoming.

Rebecca Blank, who would have been the university’s first female president, announced that she would not take the job after being diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of cancer.

Former two-term governor Sonny Perdue is all but certain to become the next leader of Georgia’s 26-institution public system. Students fear that if Perdue’s tenure looks anything like his time as governor, funding cuts will follow.

Mark Rosenberg’s resignation from Florida International is the second high-profile presidential departure this month. Boards appear to be taking evidence of inappropriate behavior more seriously, experts say.

As corporate America begins embracing multiyear interim executives, so too does higher education.

None of those changes are unheard-of in higher education, but they’re relatively uncommon and therefore noteworthy when they all happen in the same place. Observers say they might make sense in a case like Dickinson’s but that they also reflect long-unfolding changes driven by different trends in higher education. “I see all these changes in a long-term pattern of greater variation in the kinds of experiences and credentials that colleges and universities are willing to consider and somet...