Patrick Callan, president of the Higher Education Policy Institute, in San Jose, called Napolitano’s hiring “a radical departure” for the university system, which he called “a very insular place in the way it looks for leadership.” Faculty groups sometimes question appointments of non-academics to presidencies. But Robert Powell, the faculty representative to the Board of Regents — who had the opportunity to talk with Napolitano during the search process — endorsed the selection… “She has deep respect for the faculty and she will listen to what we say,” Powell said… Not all faculty members agree, Christopher Newfield, professor of American culture at the University of California at Santa Barbara, outlined several objections, and rejected the idea that success in a political career necessarily made someone qualified to lead a university.

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by staff, Inside Higher Ed.

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