The ad in this Sunday's New York Times reads very simply: "President. Harvard University."
Below, in a smaller font, it offers an unassuming pitch.
"Nominations and applications are invited for the presidency of Harvard University. The successful candidate is expected to be a person of high intellectual distinction and demonstrated leadership qualities. Letters and supporting material may be sent to the Harvard University Presidential Search Committee."
The ad is easily missed, stuck on page 8 of the Week in Review section, along with others for executive assistants and speech pathologists.
Now, Harvard is not the only Ivy League university looking for a president.
Friday afternoon, Harold T. Shapiro of Princeton University said that at the end of the year he will step down from his post as president.
Earlier this year, E. Gordon Gee shocked Brown by announcing that after only two years in Providence, he would leave to assume Vanderbilt University's chancellorship.
The recent spike in executive resignations is reminiscent of a period in the early 1990s when several high-profile universities--Columbia, Yale, Duke and the University of Chicago--lost their presidents simultaneously.
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