Shared Governance

November 16, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to virtual processes and methods for all colleges and universities. Increasingly, colleges and universities have shifted permanently to expanded online or hybrid educational delivery models and have begun conducting …

November 09, 2020 - Unprecedented levels of board engagement present challenges to and successes in shared governance, reported members of AGB’s Council of Board Professionals at their October 2020 meeting. Amid a pandemic, the switch to virtual engagement has resulted in full attendance at …

October 12, 2020 - When institutions conduct searches for presidents or other senior leaders, building the right compensation package should be a primary concern. Compensation must be fair, defensible, and competitive to attract excellent candidates and stand up to scrutiny. Boards and hiring officers …

October 05, 2020 - With the fall semester underway for many institutions, I’m aware of the unprecedented challenges confronting your board, leadership team, faculty, and staff as you collaboratively address immediate short-term challenges. At the same time, although I know how significant these challenges are, …

September 15, 2020 - Even before the pandemic, many boards had difficulty balancing their strategic governance responsibilities in relation to the management of their institutions. Some were not sufficiently involved in governance and left most things, including major strategic choices, to their presidents and …

August 10, 2020 - As the 2019 AGB publication “Best Practice Guidelines for the Continuing Engagement of Former Board Members” suggests, finding creative, meaningful, and substantive ways of retaining invaluable relationships with board members whose terms have concluded present challenges and opportunities. “Moreover, when a …

August 6, 2020 - Navigating the challenges and opportunities this year has given us has been difficult. The decisions made around balancing the immediate needs of the …

August 03, 2020 - These are extraordinary times in academia. In my role as systems thinker, strategy consultant, board member, and professor, I am often asked by university board members: What are the essential questions we should be addressing during these turbulent times? Here …

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 …

The University System of Maryland comprises twelve universities representing, in many ways, the broad range of American higher education institutions—from large research universities to smaller comprehensive institutions to HBCUs. While the diversity of the system—and the spectrum of opportunities that …