Abstract
When I joined the faculty of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1977, I began referring to myself as a “rookie,” which, in fact, was the truth. Similarly, when I came to WSSU in January 1996, I was again a rookie. True, I had acquired significant higher education experience at some of the finest institutions in the United States, but I had not been a chancellor or president before. Also, I had not worked as an administrator in a black college. It would not take long to find out that I would need another kind of education.
There is something in every one of you that waits and listens to the sound of the genuine in yourself.
—Howard Thurman
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Public sector organizations, in a tight labor market, can become the employer of last resort, “one that caters to the security craver rather than the risk-taker.” See Paul C. Light, The New Public Service (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999), p. 1.
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Schexnider, A.J. (2013). Learning the Ropes. In: Saving Black Colleges. Philanthropy and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323460_2
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