A Global Headhunt

Newsweek, August, 2008 by Barrett Sheridan

Universities are starting to look beyond their borders when it comes time to hire a new boss.

When next year’s crop of high-school graduates arrive at Oxford University in the fall of 2009, they’ll be joined by a new face: Andrew Hamilton, the 55-year-old Yale provost who will become Oxford’s vice chancellor—a position equivalent to university president in the United States, with responsibility for the day-to-day running of the august institution.

Hamilton, a distinguished chemist who took on a senior administrative post at Yale in 2003, isn’t the only educator crossing the pond. Others include Louise Richardson, who was executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard before her appointment as principal of St. Andrews, Scotland’s oldest...

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