Frank LoMonte Pens Article on the Secrecy Around College Presidential Searches

Frank LoMonte, Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, is the author of “How #MeToo Will Change the Way Colleges Choose Presidents” published in The Chronicle of Higher Education on March 25.

In the article, LoMonte reflects on the end of an era of darkness in which secrecy-obsessed headhunting firms dominated the selection of college presidents. In the wake of the “MeToo” movement, he asserts searches must be done in public so that sexual harassers at educational institutions, even at higher levels, are exposed before they are hired. Future hires without a rigorous background investigation will no longer be the norm. LoMonte argues that secret search is a disappearing dinosaur and there will be a new hashtag for the headhunters who resist public vetting of presidential finalists: #TimesUp.

Posted: March 27, 2018
Category: College News
Tagged as: Brechner Center for Freedom of Information, Frank LoMonte, The Chronicleof Higher Education