Knowledge Center
The Knowledge Center offers focused, succinct resources about governance: it's a place to come for quick answers to your governance questions. More in-depth resources are linked from each page, and you can also search the entire site by topic with the navigation menu in the top right of the page.
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Governance Briefs
Briefs are short explanations of specific topics. Two pages or less, they highlight major points and suggest questions to ask.
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Governance FAQs
FAQs are governance questions that AGB's reference librarian is often asked.
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Governance Database
The AGB database (members only) of selected books and reports and Trusteeship magazine archives is a source of higher education governance literature that you can search online.
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) database covers all fields of education and serves as the secondary source for journal articles about higher education governance issues. The ERIC database is a project of the U.S. Dept. of Education and is always readily accessible online.
Podcasts and Videos
Our podcasts and videos are interviews or clips with governance experts, exploring topics and ideas useful to trustees.
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Data Files
Data File columns (pdfs) from Trusteeship are a numbers-centric look at a specific area of governance research.
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Reference Librarian
AGB’s reference librarian (members only) is available to research specific governance questions, provide sample documents, or recommend resources. Contact her here.
The Knowledge Center emerged from the Zwingle Resource Center (ZRC), a special collection of governance resources located in AGB’s offices in Washington, D.C. AGB's first full-time president was James L'Woods Zwingle who served AGB from 1964 to 1974. In his long and distinguished career in higher education, Dr. Zwingle served as president of Park College (Missouri) from 1947 to 1955 and as vice president of Cornell University from 1955 to 1964.
For many years, the ZRC has been the premier repository for the best published research and scholarship on higher education governance, trusteeship, and the academic presidency. The ZRC library continues to archive copies of important governance texts, but has evolved to fill online research needs as well.
