LSU's board has split its top leadership for the first time in over a decade, naming Wade Rousse as system president and James Dalton as flagship campus chancellor

"It takes four years just to learn the role and then another couple of years to figure out what to do with it," James Birge says, who will soon retire from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

At least 10 leaders have announced their coming retirements or resigned in the past two weeks.

Also, the president of Howard University in D.C. has stepped down a little less than two years into his tenure.