Institute for Board Leaders and Chief Executives of Public Universities and Systems 2025

Allison Dean Love

Allison Dean Love has served more than 24 years in higher education board governance. Her service includes the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education, as former Governor Nikki Haley’s appointee as the public four-year institutions’ representative. She served as vice chair, chaired the Public Agenda Ad Hoc Committee to create a new strategic plan for higher education, and chaired the executive director/president search. She also served on the Lowcountry Graduate Center Board of Directors where she was chair and vice chair. She is currently serving on The Citadel Board of Visitors where she has chaired the Communications and Community Relations Committee for many years. Love also serves on the Executive Committee, Education and Leadership Development Committee, and the Legal Ad Hoc Committee. She previously served on numerous other committees, including Board Development and Board Composition Ad Hoc Committees, as well as search committees for president, vice president, provost, and legislative liaison.

With more than 25 years’ experience in communications, public relations, media relations, as well as loss prevention and risk management, Love’s professional experience ranges from property and casualty insurance to banking, health care, nonprofit, and association management. As a consultant for national, state, and local clients for more than 10 years, Love engages in media and public relations, crisis communications, and strategic planning. She also worked in human resources, recruiting, and business development for search firms and hired thousands of employees for a variety of companies including financial services and healthcare organizations.

Love holds a bachelor of business administration in management from Middle Tennessee State University, a master of business administration from The Citadel, and an associate in personal insurance from the Insurance Institute of America. She completed one year toward a PhD in communications/public relations at the University of South Carolina.

Terrence “Terry” MacTaggart

Terrence “Terry” MacTaggart, PhD, is an experienced leader and scholar in higher education. His consulting and research work focuses on higher education leadership and policy, strategic planning, board development, issues of shared governance, and leadership evaluation. He has held the chancellor’s position at the Minnesota State University System and on two occasions at the University of Maine System. He has also served as a faculty member and administrator at several public and independent colleges and universities where he has led or participated in multiple institutional turnarounds. He has served as a consultant and/or facilitator of board retreats for numerous colleges, universities, and systems. His clients include major public research universities, urban and metropolitan universities, distinguished independent institutions, regional comprehensives, international colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, nontraditional colleges, community colleges, and proprietary schools. MacTaggart has served as a Fulbright Scholar to Thailand and to Vietnam as an expert on accreditation and quality assurance. His research and publications focus on governance, improving relations between institutions and the public, and restoring institutional competitiveness.

MacTaggart’s most recent publications are Crisis Leadership for Board Chairs and Presidents and Assessing and Developing College Presidents, published by AGB Press in 2020.

Richard Novak

Richard Novak is an AGB consultant and senior fellow, serving to help advance the association’s interests and member needs in state and federal education policy and board education. During his 21-year career at AGB, he served as the senior vice president for programs and research and executive director of the Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance. Novak has directed or co-directed studies in several states, overseen special programs on board and presidential leadership, led several initiatives on the effectiveness of public college and university governing boards, advocated for the reform of public board member selection practices, overseen the association’s programs and research for both public and private members, and worked to incorporate environmental sustainability into governing board agendas.

At AGB, he also worked on governance and higher education projects for the Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt, the Ireland Higher Education Authority, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. While at AGB and as a senior fellow and consultant, he has led or co-led more than 15 board workshops and helped plan or participate in more than two dozen statewide public board education programs in addition to several longer-term consulting assignments related to public governance.

The registration fee for the institute is $5,495 per two-member team. A third team member may join for $2,747.

The registration fee includes program expenses for both the board leader and the president (and optional third team member), private lodging for one night, meals during the Institute, and program materials.

This program is available only to board leaders and chief executives of public institutions and systems that are members of AGB.

Due to the intensive nature of the Institute, spouses and families are not included in the program. Please contact registrar@AGB.org with any questions.