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Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents Chair Andrá R. Ward has been selected to serve on the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges’ (AGB) Council for Student Success.
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Despite progress, college and university boards of trustees are still not representative of the students they serve, according to new research.
Members of college governing bodies at both public and private institutions remain majority White and male, despite some small shifts in board demographics over the last five years.
The board members who oversee America’s colleges and universities are still overwhelmingly white and male, though institutions have diversified their boards somewhat in recent years.
At a moment when race is at the core of so many of higher education’s most intense and defining debates, the final authorities setting college and university policies still tend to be white men.
WASHINGTON, DC (December 2, 2021)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating strategic board leadership in higher education, today released a benchmarking report that showcases continuing demographic shifts in the composition of higher education governing boards.Â
The pandemic era is likely to continue to broaden the gap between wealthier colleges and colleges that struggle financially, according to a recent report from bond-rating agency Fitch Ratings.
Since the chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education complained that leaders of the Board of Regents had created a hostile workplace environment, the system has continued to operate with no outward signs of the strife taking place behind closed doors.