Presidents Who Blog... 3 New List Additions
Sitting here at LAX waiting for a late plane from Minneapolis... and thus time to get back and update the list of college and university presidents who blog. The addition of 3 new people below brings the total list to 39 presidents. Thanks to everyone who sent along these notices.
Check all 39 entries at http://bobjohnsonconsulting.com/blog1/2007/07/15_presidents_who_blog_saint_v.html
Our three new presidents who blog are a mix of old and new:
- Alastair Summerlee at University of Guelph at http://www.uoguelph.ca/president/blog/ I love the title of this one, "From the President's Window." Summerlee joins those who include their photo with the blog as a nice, personalizing touch. Everyone should do that. President Summerlee is an overdue addition here. He's been blogging since August 2006 but earlier online searches didn't locate him. Recent postings are quite substantive, dealing with Canada's ongoing higher education funding dilemma.
- Jules Glanzer at Tabor College at http://blogs.tabor.edu/presidentsblog/ This new blog starts with posts about a trip to Poland and the Ukraine to explore the roots of the college's Mennonite heritage. Grant Overstake at Tabor writes that the list of presidents who blog helped convince President Glanzer to start this one when he "recognized several colleagues on the list." Many photos in this first effort will no doubt have strong appeal to the alumni and friends of Tabor.
- Wallace Boston, president of the American Public University System, blogs at http://wallyboston.com/ where his most recent post is a detailed review of new legislation to provide increased educational benefits for veterans based on presentations at an ACE presidential summit. President Boston's blog started in May 2008.
The continued increase in presidents who blog is exciting. It represents an important leadership commitment to bring a more human element to online communications. While some PR people and lawyers may still get shivers about this, no evil has come from it yet. I'll look forward to posting more new additions as more presidents start to blog.
With just 30 minutes to boarding my flight, that's it for now.