An ongoing review of Michigan State University’s accreditation is pressing the school to prove it’s making real efforts to stomp out the board interference and donor influence that has brought so much scandal in recent years.
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Colleges continue to face significant obstacles as they try to diversify their governing boards, a new report from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) finds.
Boards in Arizona, Hawaii, Michigan and Wisconsin, have faced shake-ups and threats of removal recently amid culture war clashes and self-inflicted controversies.
The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has published a report based on a qualitative survey examining higher education boards’ efforts to expand the diversity of their compositions.
E. Gordon Gee likes to tell a joke that goes like this: When he first became a university president, in 1981, at age 37, he was doing a bad job. One day a couple of older professors told him as much. His problem, they informed the young president, was that he did not look or act the part.
President’s corner: President Elizabeth Davis crunches the numbers on new molds of student support
“It’s a true blend of academic affairs and student life in a way that I haven’t seen at other universities,” Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University (S.C.), says about the Furman Avantage.
A group of Harvard Jewish alumni is scouring the school’s course offerings, critiquing diversity and inclusion policies, and lobbying top administration in an attempt to root out what they view as pervasive antisemitism plaguing the university.
State senators blocked the latest effort to reform how board members at public New Mexico institutions are chosen.
The Babson College Board of Trustees recently was honored as one of the four recipients of the 2024 John W. Nason Award for Board Leadership by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).
Executive search firm AGB Search provided the report to the State Board of Higher Education, which discussed it Thursday
Interview with Terrence MacTaggart
Politically motivated plagiarism claims prompted Harvard’s Claudine Gay to resign. Her decision to step down largely follows the trend of other, similar cases.
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