AGB in the News

Like much of America, higher education is consumed with uncertainty over Tuesday’s presidential election.

Editor’s note: This guest column was written by the leaders of the employee councils, the shared governance groups at CSU. Shared governance in higher education is widely recognized as “essential to the health, vitality, and future of America’s colleges and universities” (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges White Paper, March 2017). Colorado State University has utilized a shared governance model for more than a century.

“There’s a lot of levers and tools that will get their attention day one,” Steve Scalise, the second-highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, said at a meeting with a lobbying group early this month while discussing ways to punish universities for alleged civil rights violations.

Only at the nation’s richest university can a billion-plus-dollar fundraising haul equal disappointment.

More than a year after the school’s current president announced his retirement, Madison College is starting over in a search for its next leader. Three finalists were scheduled to attend forums this week and next week in Madison, where employees, students and community members could provide input.

Brandeis University stands apart in the higher education world with its combination of an intimate, liberal arts feel and powerhouse research operation that produces scientific breakthroughs and wins Nobel Prizes.

Florida Atlantic University has been searching for a president since January 2023. The initial search, which began in June 2023, ended in suspension and was declared illegal. A new search has now begun. Here are significant moments in both searches.

After fighting for nearly a decade about who should oversee Nevada’s higher education institutions, state lawmakers are hoping voters will give them the power to overhaul the current system, which includes an elected board of regents, when they head to the polls in November.

Higher education professionals, from academics and advisers to presidents and provosts, are facing major sectorwide challenges. Financial aid administrators, for instance, are still grappling with the botched rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Top college leaders, meanwhile, are dealing with enrollment challenges and student protests. Below, we’re rounding up some of the top higher education conferences in 2025.

The Association of Governing Boards (AGB), just closed their 10-day window of listening to the community’s desires for what they’d like to see in a new City College chancellor. 

The Board of Trustees of the University of The Bahamas (UB), through its Presidential Search Committee (PSC), has launched the recruitment phase of the search for UB’s next President with the release of the presidential profile document “The Presidential Opportunity at UB.”The profile outlines the university’s strategic imperatives and the desired attributes and qualifications of the next President.

Two days after faculty members at Brandeis University narrowly voted no confidence in their president, Ron Liebowitz announced he’ll step down from the post, effective Nov. 1. Faculty criticized Liebowitz for fundraising failures and the way he handled a recent budget shortfall, which led to job cuts. Over all, they said Liebowitz has shown a “consistent pattern of damaging errors of judgment and poor leadership,” according to the no-confidence motion.