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From Student Affairs to the Presidency

Student Affairs NOW

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The Importance of Understanding Your Ego

I didn't know it'd be this hard. I was a vice president of a ginormous division at Virginia Tech with 3000 employees and ginormous budget. It's living in a fish bowl, balancing the myriad of needs and demands of various constituencies responding to the occasional emergency,. While trying to strategically make a college's future admits turbulent times and trying to be the best spouse and father or friend. This is a tall order that not everyone can accomplish successfullynot. But when people put hard stuff on you are unfair stuff that they're often putting it on the role, and not you.

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