Resources on Boards and Educational Quality

Trusteeship Articles

Allen, Jo.  "Ask the Right Questions About Student Assessment."  May-June 2007.

Baldwin, Roger G. "Tresspassers in the Groves of Academe?"  January-February 2005. 

Bacow, Lawrence S. “How Competition Whipsaws Our Colleges and Universities.”  January-February 2008.

Bok, Derek C. "The Seizing Initiative For Quality Education." March-April 2006.

Erwin, Dary.  "The ABCs of Assessment." March-April 2003.

Ewell, Peter.  "Do We Make the Grade?"  November-December 2006. 

Kazin, Cathrael and David G. Payne.  "Ensuring Educational Quality Means Assessing Learning." March-April 2009. 

Klein, Stephen and Steve Uhlfelder.  "Should College Students Be Tested to Hold Institutions Accountable for Student Learning?" May-June 2006. 

Loughry, Andrea. “So Many Rankings, So Few Measures of Student Learning.”January-February 2008.

Massy, William F., Steven W. Graham, and Paula Myrick Short. “Getting a Handle on Academic Quality.” September-October 2007.

Morrill, Richard L. "The Overlapping Worlds of Academic Governance." January-February 2003.

AGB Statements

 Statement on Board Responsibility for Institutional Governance

Publications

Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Faculty, Governing Boards, and Institutional Governance. Washington, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2009.

Ewell, Peter T. Making the Grade: How Boards Can Ensure Academic Quality. Washington, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006.

Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Closing the Gaps by 2015: Texas Strategies for Improving Student Participation and Success.Washington, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2008.

Morrill, Richard L. Strategic Leadership in Academic Affairs: Clarifying the Board's Responsibilities. Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2002.

Morrill, Richard L. The Board’s Responsibilities for Academic Affairs.Board Basics. Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2003.

Other Organizations

National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment assists institutions and others in discovering and adopting promising practices in the assessment of college student learning outcomes.

New Leadership Alliance for Student Learning and Accountability is an advocacy-focused organization that supports voluntary and cooperative efforts to move the higher education community towards gathering, reporting on, and using evidence to improve student learning in American undergraduate education.