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1/ HAVE THE BABY BOOMERS TAKEN COMPLETE CONTROL OF OUR US RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES?

A) What is the most prestigious US university to be headed by a member of Generation X or a Millennial?

B) Other than UC Berkeley, name any TOP Tier US research university *not* headed by a Boomer.
2/ Assuming I have this right, we are currently betting close to *100%* of our top US Research Universities & Institutes on boomer leaders born over a decade & a half between 1946-61.

Keep in mind, the oldest GenX folks are already early/mid 50s. None of them made it?? None???
3/ Before you tell me that University Presidents & Chancellors are always the age of the Boomers now...No. Just no. Start with William Bowen at Princeton (39) or Sheldon Hackney at UPenn (late 40s) (Or Martin Meyerson..).

This is quite different. This is *zero* age diversity.
END/ Assuming my numbers are correct, I call for discussions considering what is going on in Higher Ed and Scientific Research to DIVERSIFY the leadership of America's Research Universities. This crop of Boomers is making *radical* decisions no other generation would make.

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We absolutely do need to worry about the incentives.

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Open to having him change my mind.
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