Ingram Center Publications
2011
The latest State Governance Action Report (SGAR) covering current or just recently completed legislative sessions. Among the most important issues being considered are management autonomy, such as relaxed rules for purchasing, procurement, and human resources, and greater fiscal autonomy measures...
2011
The content of this edition of the State Governance Action Report was informed by newspaper reports, online reports, state and institutional Web sites, and conversations with state and higher education leaders. It is current through February 1, 2011.
Much of this legislative activity comes at a...
2010
From the Introduction:
This is the second consecutive year that the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) is reporting on the financial conditions facing public governing boards. A continuation of efforts by AGB’s Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance,...
2010
Coordinating boards and commissions have long been members of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), but we have never attempted to systematically collect data about how they are structured internally or about the citizens who serve on them. This report does that....
2010
This March 2010 report includes a detailed summary of the most relevant
issues, legislative proposals, and proposed policies facing the
governance and oversight of public higher education.
Executive Summary
Declining fiscal conditions continue be the major higher education issue in the states....
2009
A Joint Paper of the National Association of System Heads, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
This paper offers a summary of key points and recommendations from the discussion and other sources.Its purpose is...
2009
Introduction
This sixth edition of the State Governance Report summarizes the most relevant issues, legislative proposals, and proposed
policies facing public higher education and its governance and oversight. The majority of coverage is devoted to the current
or just recently completed 2009...
2009
This report provides an overview of current financial conditions in public higher education. Using such metrics as funding levels, budget cuts, strategies for cost reductions, creative board actions, tuition and financial aid levels, enrollment projections, private support, and current board...
2009
This report highlights and recognizes award recipients for their efforts to develop and implement the state's most successful programs, projects, and activities that help meet the goals of the Texas higher education plan, Closing the Gaps, by 2015. Many worked to develop and implement effective...
2009
This is the tenth paper in AGB's biennial series summarizing federal and state public-policy issues affecting higher education.
2008
This is the fifth edition of the State Governance Action Report that has been produced since 2000 by AGB’s Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance. Focusing primarily on state and higher education policies directly affecting governance, trusteeship, and institutionally related...
2008
This report summarizes the joint four-year effort of AGB and the Texas Coordinating Board to educate and inform leaders and citizens, and highlights the totality of work thus far of a state confronting major demographic change and achievement gaps in education. Board members, higher education...
2008
Expectations of trustees have undergone a dramatic change in the wake of the Enron debacle, the new strictures of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and several new state policies, laws, and executive actions. A "new ethic of trusteeship" continues the trend of expecting boards to be more deeply engaged in...
2007
Welcome to the Ingram Center’s State Governance Action Report. Compiled in this report
are state policy developments, including legislation, commissions, and studies, affecting
the structure, responsibilities, and operations of public higher education governing
boards and institutionally...
2007
Governors play a crucial role in the governance of public colleges and universities,
in part through their appointments of the citizen volunteers who help steer the policy
course for these complex organizations. The most effective trustees and regents have the
knowledge base—and the leadership,...
2005
Charter and enterprise universities emerged as major issues in recent legislative sessions.
Although charter colleges or universities have been debated previously in a few
states, they are still relatively new and untested concepts in higher education policy.
Charter and enterprise universities, or...
2004
The 2004 State Governance Action Annual certainly shows that when it comes to American higher education
governance these days, there is much ado about something—at least in the public sector.
The financial distress that has rocked state governments over the past couple of years has touched
off a...
2004
State policy makers have a vested interest in the successful governance of their state's higher education system. The citizens chosen to serve as trustees and regents of the state's colleges and universities oversee valuable public assets that they hold in trust for current and future...
2004
James C. Hearn, Michael K. McLendon, and Leigh Z. Gilchrist discuss the impact of sunshine laws on governing boards, offer recommendations to improve communication regarding such laws, and suggest compromises for boards and the public on open meetings and open records laws.
2004
David W. Breneman, university professor and dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, examines experiments and proposed changes underway in the public higher education systems in seven states and offers questions for governing boards and policymakers to address in...
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