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.
Mary Papazian, PhD
Executive Vice President
AGB
Justin Augustine
Xavier University of Louisiana
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
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
“Board Oversight of Institutional Performance” was the topic of the February 8 meeting of the AGB Council of Board Chairs. Few areas of focus could be more critical in terms of board governance practices and captures the sentiments with which AGB CEO Henry Stoever opened the zoom meeting.
The November meeting of AGB’s Council of Board Chairs focused on the challenges that the environment of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA)[1] present to effective and strategic shared governance of America’s colleges and universities. The session began with a presentation by Council Ambassador David Maxwell, PhD, proposing the essential institutional characteristics necessary to survive and thrive in a VUCA world:
The topic of the August session of the AGB Council of Board Chairs was “Anticipating Strained Board-Constituent Relations.” The primary question put to the group was: “Are You Ready?” In advance of the session, the following list of potential factors impacting the campus environment and its constituents was offered to give participants opportunities and challenges to consider. Council ambassadors David Maxwell and Jill Derby offered an overview of these topics while emphasizing the challenges institutional leaders and boards face in addressing these issues as they emerge in an environment that has changed (and continues to change) in significant ways. There is definitely consensus that new approaches and creative solutions are needed in this post-pandemic world—across all sectors of higher education.
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