Publications By Topic: Public Policy
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
2011
“Front and Center: Critical Choices for Higher Education” examines ways governance leaders can increase the number of Americans who finish college and other certificate...
Reports and Surveys
2011
The latest State Governance Action Report (SGAR) covering current or just recently completed legislative sessions. Among the most important issues being considered are...
Publications
2011
This is the 11th paper in AGB’s series summarizing federal and
state public policy issues affecting higher education. We hope
that governing boards, institutional and...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
2009
Introduction
This sixth edition of the State Governance Report summarizes the most relevant issues, legislative proposals, and proposed
policies facing public higher...
Publications
2009
Each New Trustee Survival Kit contains five quick-reading Board Basics on key topics ranging from ethics and values to finance and fund-raising responsibilities:
The Board's...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Publications
2009
The Fundamentals Set of six quick-reading Board Basics booklets is the best source of information on board structure and the responsibilities of trusteeship.
The...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Publications
2009
This is the tenth paper in AGB's biennial series summarizing federal and state public-policy issues affecting higher education.
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
2007
Welcome to the Ingram Center’s State Governance Action Report. Compiled in this report
are state policy developments, including legislation, commissions, and studies,...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
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...
Reports and Surveys
2004
Principles and good practices for leaders who wish to establish state-level trustee-education programs or improve existing ones, drawing on practices used in Illinois,...
Reports and Surveys
2003
This paper makes the case for establishing recruitment and screening panels to help
governors appoint public college and university trustees. It offers ideas that can be...
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