An Essential Partnership in a Time of Uncertainty
Since it was founded by board chairs of state universities in 1921, AGB has prioritized assistance to board leaders and chief executives in ensuring their essential partnership is healthy and up to the challenges of the day. Public higher education today must be at once responsive, anticipatory, reliable, and durable in navigating dynamic environments. Please join us next spring for a program dedicated to the imperative of “leadership in changing environments.”
Facilitated group sessions provide best practices in governance and elicit effective strategies from fellow participants, while team meetings between chief executives and board leaders and one-on-one consultations allow participants to focus on mutual planning.
Why attend?
The program is structured to ensure each team develops a unique “governance action plan” as the primary product of its collaboration onsite.
Benefitting from faculty-led plenary sessions and small-group exercises, each team will be supported in planning together around:
- Strategic goal-setting, with clarity and alignment on leadership-level priorities to advance the organization, including a set of board priorities that will be used to focus board activity to best effect;
- Plans to build board effectiveness and ensure accountability for board value-added in the context of identified priorities and focus; and
- A discrete, mutual plan of activities and deliverables through which collaboration and partnership will be enacted back home.
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Past Attendees
Bowling Green State University
Central State University
Colorado Mountain College
Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education
Florida Atlantic University
Governors State University
Grand Valley State University
Grant MacEwan University
Minnesota State System
New Mexico State University
North Carolina State University
Rowan University
The College of New Jersey
University of Alaska System
Utah State University
Western Carolina University
Event Resources
Agenda
(draft schedule, subject to change based on curriculum)
*All times Mountain
March 30 |
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| 8:00 – 9:45 AM | Welcome and Setting the Stage Meet the facilitators; meet colleagues from other institutions, systems, and states; review the overall institute program; and engage in an important early discussion about “what keeps you up at night” as a leader. |
| 9:45 – 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:00 – 10:45 AM | Pillars of Effective 21st-Century Chair-Executive Relationships An exploration of board roles and responsibilities in the public sector, with a focus on strengthening trust and partnership between chairs and chief executives in a changed and changing environment. |
| 10:45 – 11:30 AM | Team Meeting #1 In the first of three essential activities, you and your partner will determine mutual goals (or aspirations or problems to be solved)—for your working relationship, the board, the institution, or the system or state—and a strategy to achieve them going forward. |
| 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM | Plenary Conversation and Discussion of Team Goals Each board chair-chief executive team will present its goals, engage in discussion and receive feedback from peers and the facilitators. |
| 12:15 – 1:15 PM | Lunch and Conversation on Chair and Presidential Leadership |
| 1:15 – 1:45 PM | Getting Things Done in the Public Sector Examine how the board chair and chief executive, with the support of the full board, can cultivate institutional responsiveness, innovation, and boldness in public institution, system, and state environments. |
| 1:45 – 2:45 PM | Team Meeting #2: Deeper Dive Into Strategies and Tactics to Achieve Goals In the second of three essential activities, chairs and executives will discuss more deeply the strategies and tactics to execute their agreed upon goals. |
| 2:45 – 3:00 PM | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:30 PM | Presentations and Group Discussion—Strategies to Meet Agreed-Upon Goals Each team will have the opportunity to get feedback on their strategies and tactics from peers and the facilitators. |
| 5:00 PM | Free Time |
| 6:00 – 8:00 PM | Reception and Dinner On Leadership: A Fireside Chat with Millie García Leadership is about courage, savvy, vision, motivation, resilience, nimbleness, the ability to engage a wide array of constituents and stakeholders in the shaping of your institution’s future, and more. A special guest speaker, Millie García, chancellor of California State University, will engage participants in an after-dinner conversation on leadership and other related topics. |
March 31 |
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| 8:30 – 9:30 AM | Continued Conversations Clarify how, by working together, you and your partner can build and sustain a board that thinks and acts strategically. |
| 9:30 – 10:45 AM | Team Meeting #3: Strengthening the Board’s Structure and Reviewing the Leadership Team Action Plan Teams will finalize a draft of an Action Plan to achieve their determined goals and ensure that all of their institute discussions add up to a clear set of next steps, milestones, and deliverables. |
| 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Closing the Loop Address lingering questions and discuss among peers which next steps you and your partner intend to take. Review concrete actions and key takeaways for implementing your action plan and ensuring board buy-in. |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Adjournment and Optional Lunch Take advantage of one final opportunity to consult with peers and AGB experts to ensure that your chief executive and board chair partnership is prepared and supported for future success. |
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Faculty
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.
Registration and Refund Policy
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.