Analysis: An attractive job isn’t necessarily an easy job

When Jeremiah Shinn calls Boise State University a “rocket ship,” it’s only somewhat hyberbolic.

Increasing on-campus enrollment. Robust online programs reaching beyond Boise. A record-setting $102 million fundraising year. A growing research resume. A nationally prominent football program.

Factor in the national buzz about Boise — due in no small part to Boise State’s emergence — and there shouldn’t be a shortage of candidates for the university president’s job Shinn has held since May, on a short-term basis.

“I’m confident in the diligence of the search process,” Shinn said during a State of the University address Wednesday. “People want to join this team.”

But an attractive job isn’t necessarily an easy job. Boise State’s next president will face fiscal and political pressures tha