Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) — Selecting a Rector
Hi. I’m Alex Usher and this is the World of Higher Education podcast. Around the world, there are lots of different names of the people who run universities: Presidents, principals, vice-chancellors, rectors, etc. And there are also various ways of deciding who should get those jobs. Broadly speaking, there are two ways this gets done. In the first, either governments or lay Boards select people, hopefully based on merit. In the second, chief executive officers are elected by some kind