Blog Posts

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

July 08, 2020 - In my 25 years at RNL, I’ve spoken to nearly 100 college/university boards about enrollment issues.  These sessions are always engaging. That said, I often leave thinking, “There are critical enrollment-related conversations boards don’t seem to be having with their …

July 01, 2020 - In an interview with Lynnette M. Heard, Janet B. Reid, the founder and CEO of BRBS World, a leading diversity and inclusion consortium, shares how best to encourage boards to proactively listen and respond to a new generation of activist …