Academic Leadership The Online Journal · 2009 · 10 citations · 1 references
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Higher education provides extensive opportunities for individuals seeking careers, career transition,and career advancement. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects there are an estimated 6,000jobs in higher education administration that will need to be filled annually through 2014 (Leubsdorf,2006). Alice Miller, a consultant with the executive-search firm Witt/Kieffer, "predicts there will be atleast a 50-percent turnover among senior administrators (higher education) in the next five to 10 years"(Leubsdorf, 2006, p. A51). Additionally, national research by the American Association of CommunityColleges (AACE) (2001) and Fain (2008) reveals that 79% of current community college presidents willretire by 2012 and 84% will retire by 2016.
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