Ensuring Educational Quality: Governing Board Responsibilities

Date: 
March 15, 2012

Based on two recent works by AGB, How Boards Oversee Educational Quality and AGB’s Statement on Board Responsibility for the Oversight of Educational Quality, meeting panelists will discuss the appropriate engagement of governing boards on issues of academic quality – an engagement that respects the prerogatives of faculty and academic administrators, but that helps also to assure stakeholders that the education offered by institutions is of the highest possible quality. Lunch and materials are included.

Panelists:
Matthew Goldstein, chancellor, The City University of New York
Mark Epstein, chairman of the board, The Cooper Union
Tori Haring-Smith, president, Washington & Jefferson College

Moderator:
Peter Eckel, vice president of governance and leadership programs, AGB

Meeting Location:
The University Club

Council Room (7th floor)
One West 54th Street
New York, New York 10019
11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

*Please be advised of The University Club's dress code which is in effect at all times. Male members and guests are required to wear jackets, dress shirts and ties. Female members and guests are required to wear clothing meeting similar standards: tailored clothing that otherwise conforms to this rule including suits, dresses and skirts or tailored trousers with dress shirts, blouses or sweaters. Jeans, shorts, capris, sneakers, flip flops and other such casual sportswear are not considered appropriate attire.*

Cellular phones and personal digital assistants must remain silent and may not be used in public areas of the Clubhouse.

Cell phones and PDAs may be used in the telephone booths throughout the Clubhouse - most of which provide reception for these devices. Also, our house phones may be used for outgoing local calls, including calls to local cell exchanges, without cost.