"A search process is not only a search for a person, it's also a process through which the larger community helps to identify what those larger priorities tend to be...what directions, opportunities might be most significant in the coming period of time," says Hanna H. Gray, a member of the Corporation and former president of the University of Chicago.
Former president of the Board of Overseers Charlotte P. Armstrong '49 notes that the search this time could prove to be different than in the past.
Rudenstine's predecessor, Derek C. Bok, arrived at a campus shaken by the turmoil of the 1960s. He stayed two decades, and by the time he left, the University needed to change its style of leadership.
"After 20 years of Bok, it was time for something different," Armstrong says.
But since Rudenstine's tenure only lasted a decade, the next change between leaders may not be as dramatic.
"It's not as much of a divergence from the past decade," she says.
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