When the president’s daughter is a student: Dad’s view
Posted February 13, 2012
Published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 12, 2012.
With the fall semester in the rearview mirror, I can honestly say that balancing the roles of college president and college parent was not as easy as I thought it would be. It’s not that my daughter and I ran into any major problems, but I did have to be very conscious of separating the personal from the professional. Read more
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