Many of them didn’t last very long in their jobs.

The Washington Post reports.

The job nobody can seem to keep: college president

When Temple University hired Neil Theobald as its president in 2013, some at the Philadelphia institution with 37,000 students described his selection as a harbinger of things to come in higher education. Unlike many of his counterparts at major universities who arrived at their jobs immediately after stints as provosts or deans, Theobald had been the chief financial officer at Indiana University.

Theobald represented a new type of president from the business side of the operation at a time when universities were facing economic headwinds and needed leaders with financial acumen. That’s why the saga playing out at Temple right now is so remarkable. Theobald’s job is on the line for supposedly allowing a $22 million shortfall in the university’s merit-scholarship program. On Tuesday, the university’s board of trustees announced its intention to dismiss Theobald.