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Particularly Now, Question the Assumptions
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 …
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An Overview of Title IX
July 29, 2020 - On August 14, 2020, colleges and universities are expected to comply with new regulations regarding sexual harassment under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This new rule, which spans more than 2,000 pages, requires colleges and universities to …
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Lessons from the Front Line
July 27, 2020 - I’ve been talking with a lot of college and university presidents lately about the crises they face and what they are doing to surmount them.  Some of these conversations occurred in researching my books Crisis Leadership for Boards and Presidents …
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College Leaders Face a Sea of Difficulties, Even After the Pandemic Subsides
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 …
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Managing the Transition from Classroom to Online Instruction
July 22, 2020 - Once an institution has made an earnest commitment to developing robust online courses and has put the necessary infrastructure into place, it falls to individual instructors to determine the best tools and methodologies to use in their courses. This can seem …
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COVID-19 Demonstrates How Boards Can Adopt Digital Transformation
July 20, 2020 - As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect lives and livelihoods across all industries, leaders of higher education institutions find themselves facing a fall semester of uncertainty. AGB Consulting’s Managing Director, Ken Knueven, recently sat down for a Q&A with Paroon …
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COVID-19 Cyber Risk: What Should Trustees and Administrators Do?
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, …
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Unprecedented Times Call for Courageous Decision-Making
July 14, 2020 - The coronavirus has changed the relationship between boards and presidents. Recognizing the unprecedented issues and the urgent timelines that presidents are facing each day in dealing with the pandemic, many boards have said, “Do what you need to do. We …
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Planning for an Asteroid amid Other Campus Disruptions
July 13, 2020 - One would assume every college campus in America has a thorough and current response plan for a shooter on campus. And it is likely every campus along the East Coast has a hurricane disaster plan, and California campuses have earthquake …
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How to Open Up in the Fall
July 08, 2020 - For many residential colleges and universities around the country the operative question is not whether to open up in the fall but how to open. So the governance question becomes how to open up responsibly. There are a growing number of …
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