Board Roles & Responsibilities

This volume, a follow-up to Margin of Excellence with incisive new contributions from eight leading foundation leaders and experts, is focused on the opportunities and risks institutionally related foundations face in a dynamic and uncertain higher education environment. Two central …

July 23, 2020 - In a dangerous rip tide a swimmer has only one thought: getting back to shore. In the pandemic rip tide every college and university is struggling. Unless they were already operating almost entirely online—as was the University of Phoenix, for …

July 15, 2020 - While university administrators scramble to decrease costs and increase revenues, the forced move to online learning has substantially heightened cyber risk. Higher education already carries more cyber risk than most other sectors. Almost all of their internal systems are online, …

How Can Boards Lead in an Unexpected Crisis Like a Pandemic? The University of Miami has faced unforeseen crises before, such as hurricanes, and has a strong level of preparedness, but not all crises are the same. Trusteeship magazine asked Juilo …

During this profoundly, unsettling time, health professionals, economists, political scientists, business executives, and government leaders are discussing the “new normal” brought on by COVID-19. For higher education and, indeed, all nonprofit organizations, this raises the question, what will our new …

June 29, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic arose at a time when colleges and universities were already facing significant challenges, including enrollment constraints, public scrutiny about the cost of postsecondary education, rising student debt, questions about the value of a degree, and more. As …

May 20, 2020 - During these increasingly difficult times, governing boards are being called upon to assume new and groundbreaking roles. They are now being challenged to move beyond the traditional roles of oversight and …

As competition for students increases due to changing demographics of the traditional college-age population, some colleges and universities have closed, merged, or affiliated with other institutions. Boards of trustees that find their higher education institutions in a financial position that …

April 7, 2020 - Board Accountability As fiduciaries, the members of a governing board hold ultimate legal responsibility for the vitality of their institution or system and for its services rendered—but accountability is different from responsibility. …

This biennial publication frames the most pressing challenges currently facing colleges and universities—those that influence how each institution operates and that demand the board’s strategic oversight and vision. The ability of a governing board to deal effectively with the following …