Over at Minding the Campus, John Leo has revived his practice of giving out an award to the college president who did the worst job of leading his or her institution in the previous year. John calls it The Sheldon, named after Sheldon Hackney who did such a horrible job of running Penn.

The competition this year was stiff, but the winner was Yale president Peter Salovey for his craven reaction to the petulant uprising on his campus. In the running were Tim Wolfe of Missouri, Michael Lovell of Marquette, Teresa Sullivan of UVA, and Janet Napolitano of the University of California.

The award sparked some interesting comments and you can read them here.