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During the last virtual meeting of calendar year 2022, the 25 members of AGB’s Council of Foundation Leaders discussed the potential issues, concerns, opportunities, and challenges of Name-Image-Likeness (NIL) and NIL Collectives.
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The most effective boards exercise leadership in many ways. They constantly scan the national landscape for issues related to higher education and carefully consider implications for their institutions.
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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: