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Presidential Derailments At Public, Master’S Level Institutions: An Examination Of The Precipitating Factors And Events, Julie Diane Longmire May 2010

Presidential Derailments At Public, Master’S Level Institutions: An Examination Of The Precipitating Factors And Events, Julie Diane Longmire

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the factors and events associated with the derailment of presidents at public, Master’s level institutions. The research study was guided by three questions:

1) What factors are perceived to be associated with the derailment of public, Master’s level college presidents?

2) What events are perceived to be associated with the derailment of the president?

3) What relationship, if any, may be found between derailment factors emerging from previous Center for Creative Leadership research and factors emerging from this study?

Data were collected from 19 in-depth interviews of current presidents, board members, …