If there’s a new “hot seat” in higher-education administration, it might burn hottest at the top. The job of public-college system head has seen a string of abrupt departures, board battles, and contentious searches.

Failed presidential searches are a nightmare for all involved. For the university, it means going back to the drawing board. For the candidate, it’s time and energy spent in vain.

On the Sunday before last Christmas, a ransom note suddenly appeared in computer printer trays at Lincoln College in Illinois.
UW-Green Bay Vice Chancellor for University Inclusivity & Student Affairs, Corey A. King, is one of 25 leaders who will engage with the AGB Institute for Leadership & Governance’s specialized curriculum of symposia, workshops, and one-on-one mentoring.
The search process for Emporia State University’s new president is moving smoothly, according to the search committee’s chairman.
The Nevada System of Higher Education just lost its third chancellor in five years. Melody Rose, hired less than two years ago, will get a severance pay of $600,000 after a board vote last week.
Tensions between state lawmakers and the University of South Carolina‘s Board of Trustees hit a boiling point over the past week with the introduction in the legislature of a bill that would dismiss every board member and cut its membership nearly in half.

WASHINGTON, DC (April 7, 2022)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating strategic board governance in higher education, announced today that the Board of Directors has elected three new members.

