Blog Posts

January 24, 2022 - During December’s inaugural Council for Student Success meeting, 22 board members, chief executives, senior administrators, faculty, and other leaders discussed key issues and opportunities focused on board governance and student success.   Meeting Highlights:  Basic Needs Are Academic Needs  It’s difficult to talk about student success …

January 05, 2022 - Happy New Year! I hope you were able to relax and revitalize over the holidays so you can thrive in 2022.  Colleges and universities have historically put student success at the heart of their mission. In recent years, however, these efforts …

December 16, 2021 - The pressures for higher education to prepare career-ready graduates seems to be more important than ever. Boards of trustees are becoming increasingly aware of the public perception that higher education is not preparing college graduates with skills needed for the …

December 15, 2021 - College and university endowments posted record returns in FY 2021. In August, Bloomberg reported a median return before fees of 27 percent for larger endowments.  Endowments of $500 million and larger fared even better, with median returns of 34 percent. …

December 13, 2021 - What role will technology play at your traditional college going forward? How will it help you achieve that ever elusive scale you have been seeking? Most private college trustees and presidents have been asking themselves these two questions recently, even …

December 10, 2021 - The wealth gap between Black and White Americans is persistent and extreme. Scholars and journalists—including Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and scholar Nikole Hannah-Jones and colleagues in the New York Times “1619 Project”—note that this chasm results from the accumulated effects of …

December 08, 2021 - Earlier this year, I shared guidance regarding how boards, in collaboration with chief executives and leadership teams, could effectively use quantitative data to oversee student success.

December 07, 2021 - One of the greatest strengths of the U.S. higher education governance model is that board members have one foot in higher education and one foot in other fields and industries—making them astute thought partners. They will often also have knowledge …

December 06, 2021 - Paul Friga, PhD, is our AGB Consulting practice area leader for strategic transformation of public higher education and the clinical associate professor of strategy at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the …

November 15, 2021 - Paul Friga, PhD, is our AGB Consulting practice area leader for strategic transformation of public higher education and the clinical associate professor of strategy at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at the …