TOM HARTON Commentary: Recipe for a great university president
And in the almost 20 years since John Ryan? None of the three presidents hired by IU’s trustees have had any apparent connection to IU or the state. The IU marketing machine will churn out plenty of evidence, most of it legitimate, that those three-Thomas Ehrlich, Myles Brand and Adam Herbert-enjoyed successful tenures, but public perception says otherwise. IU isn’t alone in turning its back on internal candidates. R. William Funk, one of the foremost university president headhunters, said only…