Blog Posts

October 20, 2021 - AGB’s Council Presidents met on September 14 to discuss presidential roles and responsibilities for board effectiveness. Key takeaways include: Presidents can help board members learn how to ask good questions and help them “zoom in” to get the details they need …

October 19, 2021 - Hiring managers expecting competitive applicant pools are finding fewer candidates with relevant experience. Learn what advancement leaders should do to appropriately grow their teams.

October 15, 2021 - Trustees – like many college presidents and chancellors – can learn a lot from history. The past illuminates how trustees helped advance – or stifle – efforts to improve racial equity on college campuses and beyond. This is evident from studying …

October 06, 2021 - For nearly 20 months of living and leading through the pandemic, we have been challenged by and overcome many obstacles, oftentimes at great speed and even risk. At the same time, we have learned plenty of valuable lessons about ways …

October 05, 2021 - One thing the pandemic has made crystal clear is that online education is here to stay. Quality online education has become a strategic goal for most colleges and universities; the question is less about if they will create more online …

September 28, 2021 - Mission: SPACE at Disney’s Epcot makes me seasick. With a nauseating combination of video, centrifuges, and hydraulics, the theme park version of a flight simulator gets closer to galaxy galloping G-forces than I ever care to be in real life. …

September 21, 2021 - Trustees are no longer passive participants outside of mainstream decision-making and policy formulation. The bottom line is simple: How well boards function will make a big difference in the fortunes of the organizations they guide. The board’s role is strategic, not …

September 17, 2021 - One need only scan recent headlines of the higher education and popular press to wonder whether public governing boards, and the processes that appoint them, need serious improvement. Some will say that schisms in board rooms reflect our deeply divided …

September 16, 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 …

September 14, 2021 - The critical need to effectively prepare higher education leaders for the presidency has been surfacing for quite some time. The 2017 American College President Study, conducted by the American Council on Education (ACE), found that 54 percent of presidents or …