Colleges, universities, community and technical schools employ more leaders than almost any part of the not-for-profit sector, and every state's market works differently.
Pick a state for the institutions, systems, metros and search firms that shape hiring there. For how academic hiring actually works, start with the national guide below.
How academic hiring really works: the career ladder from associate director upward, search committees, shared governance, and how to position yourself. Written once, so the state guides can stay focused on their own markets.
Read the national guideEach guide covers the institutions beyond the flagships, the history, a section per metro, tuition and state funding, athletics, and graduate and technical programs.
The state guides cover where the jobs are. The role guides cover what the job actually is: the career ladder, the skills expected at each level, who transfers in from outside higher education, the interview questions, and a first 90 days.
These guides cover higher education. The wider nonprofit executive market is covered separately.
The series is being built out state by state.