This article from Inside Higher Ed discusses controversy surrounding the pending selection of the next head man at West Virginia University, as one of the candidates is a political insider but not an experienced academic.
The same debate occurs elsewhere to a lesser or greater degree - should the head of an institution of higher learning be a leader in the academic sense, or rather a leader in getting money and political results for the school.
This wackier article about the situation says: "You know things are getting weird when the chairman of the board at West Virginia University is up in arms at a federal appeals judge who also happens to be a member of the university’s alumni board." The federal appeals judge is Robert King of the Fourth Circuit.
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