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John Ellis Price, the man who has guided UNT-Dallas through its transformation from a tiny satellite campus into an accredited, standalone university, won’t be officially retired for another nine months.
The school has been preparing for his departure for a while now, but only now has the search for a replacement begun in earnest. A California-based executive search firm placed an
UNT-Dallas could still wind up headed by a bespectacled, tweed-wearing former professor, but don’t be surprised if someone from the private sector winds up in the president’s seat. This is, after all, a school that worked with Bain & Co. to develop a New University Model that emphasizes tailoring course offerings to the job market and forging much closer ties with the business world. Tweed-wearers just aren’t cut out to do that.
