AGB in the News

July 15, 2021 – As the pandemic begins to subside in the U.S. and organizations collectively begin to get back on their feet, colleges and universities across the country are opening searches that, if all goes to plan, will allow high-profile leaders to take them into a new era of fundraising, digitalization, sports and, increasingly the case, globalization – not to mention a pandemic and post-pandemic era. One national recruiting outfit, AGB Search, has become a magnet for such assignments.

A new coalition of higher education organizations has formed to press the case for doubling the Pell Grant, the federal program that provides financial aid to low- and moderate-income students to attend college.

The University of Pennsylvania’s longest-serving president, Amy Gutmann, is set to leave the university after more than 17 years at its helm. It begs the question: who will replace her?

Howard University is in the midst of “an emerging, heated, family squabble.”

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work examining the legacy of slavery, Black students and faculty at UNC saw yet another example of the institution’s failure to welcome and support scholars and students of color.

After over a year of the devastating impact of the pandemic around the world, there have been some commonalities and differences across the higher education arena.

Santa Fe Community College is an institution with the power to change and improve lives. That’s why all of Santa Fe should be concerned about the college’s pandemic-related struggles.

Yale’s governing board scrapped the petition process for open board seats after several candidates campaigned on single issues and received outside funding and support. Some alumni are worried about becoming disenfranchised and want the original process reinstated.

Zoraya Hightower opened an email May 24 to disappointment: Her campaign to secure a seat on Yale University’s board of trustees as an alumni fellow had ended in defeat.

When Kentucky State begins classes for the 2021 fall semester, students will be on campus.

TUCKED INSIDE the state budget proposal passed unanimously last week by the Senate is an odd provision directing the chair of the University of Massachusetts board of trustees to invite members of the Legislature “to appear on the agenda for a regular or special meeting of the board.”

The state’s Republican leaders have a strong hand in the public system’s workings — a dynamic observers argue it must break free of.