Academics
Finding the Leaders to Grow Your Legacy
CSA Academics serves its clients through a dedicated process that allows us to understand the unique culture of each institution and leadership role. By leveraging a vast network of relationships with institutional leaders, CSA Academics recruits exemplary talent to meet the complex challenges facing institutions of higher education.
Executive Search for leading institutions
Experienced & Connected
CSA Academics search consultants leverage decades of experience in academic leadership and search, along with a vast network within academia, to anticipate our clients needs and provide unparalleled, personal service.
Strategic & Collaborative
We pride ourselves on a thoughtful and systematic, yet highly tailored, search process to ensure that our clients can recruit qualified leaders who are well prepared to lead their organizations forward.
Comprehensive & Focused
Through thoughtful networking and a rigorous screening process, CSA recruits a diverse pool of candidates that are qualified for and interested in the position. Our consultants facilitate the process to ensure interviews are informative and deliberations are streamlined.
Defining the Search
Through deep stakeholder conversations, CSA works with our clients and Search Committee partners to identify essential candidate qualities and to clearly articulate the search priorities.
Candidate Recruitment
Our deliberate recruiting and championing of the position ensures that we build a substantial pool of candidates with capabilities and interests that align with our client’s vision for the role while keeping institutional culture at the forefront.
Successful Hiring
Ultimately, final hiring decisions rest with our clients, still CSA remains a trusted partner providing measured guidance through the final stages of the search process. We collaborate with clients to facilitate reference checks, mediate negotiations, and advise in final hiring decisions.
Our Approach
CSA’s approach to senior university leadership searches is highly customized to meet the unique needs and processes of each client.
The CSA Academic Search Division leverages a team of experienced higher education leaders and executive search consultants to guide institutions through the search process. Our framework provides structure to the process, while offering the team flexibility to adapt to the unique contextual needs of each client.
WHO WE SERVE
INSTITUTIONS FROM COAST TO COAST
CSA Academics assists centers, departments, colleges, and universities of all sizes and statures identify and recruit transformational leaders.
Thank you to CSA for your assistance in our search for a new athletic director. Craig, Drew, and the CSA Team provided us with an excellent candidate pool, and our search committee was impressed by the quality and experience of each applicant. Your efforts in providing us with top notch candidates enabled us to conduct a highly successful search.
President
, University of Maine