Marcy Brown Marsden

It is the “age of interims,” as a recent story in The Chronicle put it. With budgetary, political, enrollment, and burnout pressures sparking administrative churn, colleges and universities have increasingly had to rely on temporary appointments to fill the leadership gap. All too often, however, institutions drop the ball in setting up interim administrators to flourish in key senior positions.

It is the “age of interims,” as a recent story in The Chronicle put it. With budgetary, political, enrollment, and burnout pressures sparking administrative churn, colleges and universities have increasingly had to rely on temporary appointments to fill the leadership gap. All too often, however, institutions drop the ball in setting up interim administrators to flourish in key senior positions.