After scrutinizing 60 campuses, Princeton's former (1933-57) President Harold W. Dodds last week glumly concluded in The Academic President—Educator or Caretaker? (McGraw-Hill; $5.95) that "the position of the president as a force in education continues to decline." Dodds's report, financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, cites estimates that college presidents often spend only 10% to 20% of their time on educational matters. Snarled in "business management, public relations, fund raising," says Dodds, they should be devoting half of their time to real academic leadership.
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