The Unversity of Maryland College Park will be out searching for a new leader for the first time in more than a decade, as my colleague, Childs Walker, writes in today's paper. Under its current president, C.D. "Dan" Mote Jr., the university increased its research funding by 150 percent, completed the two largest fundraising campaigns in its history, and increased its applicant pool by 78 percent. So the search this time around will be far different than it was in 1998 when the university was seen as a middling state university.