I fully agree with Keith on this.
Yours,
Joel
On 10/21/2021 12:21 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
On 10/20/21 8:54 PM, John Levine wrote:
It sure seems like "we don't believe nomcoms will pick the right
people so we are inventing more rules."
I agree with Barry that a convention not to appoint someone for more
than N years is fine, but if we
then think we need a stick to force nomcoms to do that, we have
problems that term limits won't solve.
On balance, I think this is right. Also, I have seen some ADs that I
thought served too long, but I don't see a correlation between the
quality of past ADs and either the length of their terms or the number
of "gap years".
If we think we need more churn in ADs, the solution is some combination
of finding/grooming more good candidates and making it easier for people
to serve, so that the nomcom has better candidates to choose from. I'm
pretty sure the solution is NOT to paint the nomcom into a corner - they
have plenty of constraints already.
Keith
