For Presidents
"The president has the opportunity to make the most significant difference possible for the college, but always and only with and through faculty, staff, and students." -private college president, in AGB's The Leadership Imperative: The Report of the AGB Task Force on the State of the Presidency in American Higher Education.
Whether an institution is public or private, large or small, four-year or two-year, the compelling need is for chief executives who can demonstrate integral leadership. Such leadership succeeds in fulfilling multiple, disparate strands of executive responsibility and conceives of these responsibilities as part of a coherent whole.
Integral Leadership
AGB's philosophy of integral leadership--where a president exerts a presence that is purposeful and consultative, deliberative yet decisive, and capable of course corrections as new challenges emerge--aligns the president, faculty, and the board together in a well-functioning partnership purposefully devoted to a well-defined, broadly affirmed, institutional vision. AGB's programs and services begin with integral leadership in mind, and we work hard to support college and university presidents and chancellors who lead the nation's most complex and important institutions.
AGB Services for Presidents and Chancellors
In this part of AGB's Web site, we will identify resources that will help you lead your institution. These resources include:
- Trusteeship articles and other publications that address complex leadership questions at the institutional level and inform you about national higher education and state and federal policy trends
- Meetings, including the annual National Conference on Trusteeship and AGB's Institute for Board Chairs and Presidents of Independent Colleges, which are designed to strengthen the partnership between an institution's president and board chair
- Consulting and other services, including comprehensive presidential assessment, achieving high performance, and consultant-on-call
The links on the right are the most recent content created for this leadership position.
