As AGB prepares to release Top Strategic Issues for Boards 2024–2025, a biennial update to our essential publication, it does so after a period of unexpected risks and challenges have buffeted higher education and its leadership
The Council of Board Leaders is a standing advisory group of professional leaders, knowledgeable about the roles, responsibilities, and practices of effective governance for higher education boards. They also have a deep understanding of the challenges boards and board leaders face, and the importance of a proactive approach to short- and long-term planning and strategy.
Council Ambassador
Mary Papazian, PhD
Executive Vice President
AGB
Members
Justin Augustine
Xavier University of Louisiana
David Barker
State of Iowa Board of Regents
Sandra Begay
University of New Mexico
Tracey Berkowitz
University of Miami
R. Kelly Cameron
Bunker Hill Community College
Alex Cirillo
Minnesota State System
Margo Cook
University of Rhode Island
Jeffrey Downs
University of Nevada System
Steve Fastook
Kean University
Catalina Garcia
Dallas College
Kim Gatling
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Steve Golding
Washington College
Don Gould
Pitzer College
Jeffrey Harris
Rochester Institute of Technology
Tom Heywood
WVU Medicine
Catharine Bond Hill
Yale University
Paul Hollingsworth
Hollins University
Danette Howard
Howard University
Michael Jones
Dillard University
Bob Juhasz
Kansas City University
Jeff Keller
Colorado College
Paul Kenney
University of Nebraska
Carrie Killoran
Macalester College
Natasha Knox
Douglas College
Myron Lawson
Southern University System
Cynthia Lenton-Gary
Houston Community College
Vanessa Lugo Flores
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
Gina Luna
Texas A&M
Diane Medley
University of Louisville
Mary Meduski
Cornell University
Sandra Moore
Anne Arundel Community College
Jeffery Perry
Babson College
Trish Riley
University of Maine System
Robby Russell
University of North Carolina, Asheville
Winslow L. Sargeant
Northeastern University
Molly S. Seals
Youngstown State University
Cynthia Shapira
Brandeis University
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education
Rupesh K. Srivastava
Ferris State University
Blaine Tamaki
University of Washington
William Thompson
City University of New York
Dan Villegas
Tarrant County College
Andrá Ward
Northern Kentucky University
Marna Whittington
University of Pittsburgh
Dale Wong
Wheaton College (IL)
With thanks to AGB Mission Partner RNL for their support of this council.
Todd Abbott
Senior Vice President, Enrollment, Fundraising, Graduate & Online Enrollment
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The AGB Council of Board Chairs is a group of 25 to 30 leaders of member college and university boards of trustees from around the United States who meet quarterly to obtain information on pressing current topics and engage in an exchange of ideas with fellow board chairs.
AGB’s Council of Board Chairs and Council of Presidents held in-person meetings recently at the National Conference on Trusteeship in San Diego.