Report on Chief Academic Officers

The Council of Independent Colleges, an organization of small and medium-size private colleges, has released a report on the chief academic officers at its institutions. Among the highlights:

• CAOs increasingly rank budgeting and financial management as their most time-consuming activity. Forty percent report financial management as their top time commitment. In a survey 10 years ago, that number was 27 percent.
• Most CAOs (83 percent) view their top priority as setting the academic vision of the institution.
• The percentage of respondents identifying as nonwhite has remained at slightly over 9 percent for the last decade.
• Women now hold 50 percent of CAO positions, up from 39 percent in 2009.