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Podcast: Alan Weiss's The Uncomfortable Truth®
Episode: Lowering Higher Education
Description: •The American Council on Education reports that 33% of universities and colleges have female presidents.
• In the Ivy League it’s six of eight. Several for the first time ever.
• The three women in front of the congressional committee were clearly over their heads, ill prepared, stunned, and soon reversed some of their testimony.
• We’re focused on identity, not talent.
• Boards used to seek academic excellence and a track record of outstanding leadership.
• Now they want the first woman, or minority, or trans person, or whatever.
• When Biden promised a black, female Supreme Court nominee, he found Ketanji Brown, by all accounts an exc...