Shared Governance

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 …

AGB Senior Fellow Ted Long will discuss how institutions confront new conditions due to the pandemic and look to the post-pandemic period. Including how to maintain the proper balance between governance and management. Join us to discuss how boards can …

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 …

Taylor University is a relatively small (approximately 1,890 students), non-denominational faith-based institution in Upland, Indiana. The university is distinctive for—among other things—its “Life Together Covenant,” which “identifies the expectations for living in community as we seek to fulfill our mission.”1 …

The State University of New York (SUNY) is the largest comprehensive system of public higher education in the United States, comprising 64 campuses with nearly six hundred thousand students and over ninety- thousand employees (roughly thirty-four thousand faculty and almost …

Since April 2015, Stockton University has been engaged in an ongoing, intensive discussion of institutional governance involving all of the university’s stakeholders. The immediate catalyst for this discussion was a crisis in early 2015 that not only deeply troubled trustees, …