Much like municipal and corporate boards-----Why University Presidents Are (Almost) Never Fired | City Journal

Why University Presidents Are (Almost) Never Fired | City Journal - Paul du Quenoy

• Even amid recent events, deferential trustees are likely to keep incumbents in power.

Earlier this week, the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT beclowned themselves before the House education committee, collectively demurring with vacuous appeals to “context” when asked whether calls for the mass killing of a people constitute harassment under their institutional policies...
Despite the media noise, the truth is that neither the three presidents who embarrassed themselves before Congress nor any other university president is likely to resign or be fired for their conduct...

• How can this be?... 

In my three-year term as a member of a governing board of an American university abroad from 2018 to 2021, for example, I never had any sense from the president about the institution’s problems, student complaints, or the faculty’s concerns. 

• After I tried to learn more, the board did not renew my appointment. I was never told why...