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November 09, 2021 - Andia Augustin-Billy, PhD, just became the first black faculty member to achieve tenure at Centenary College of Louisiana as that institution nears the celebration of its bicentennial. When we hired her as an assistant professor of French in 2015, I had little doubt this day would come. While the college and …

November 09, 2021 - Higher education has seen a continuing increase in the number of students experiencing emotional and mental health challenges. Counseling center directors report a gain in the number of students enrolled on their campuses who have a mental health diagnosis and …

November 03, 2021 - Several themes have been on the minds of AGB’s Council of Foundation Leaders this summer and fall during the CFL meetings.

November 03, 2021 - Effective boards have always been mindful of risks facing the enterprises they serve, and as I wrote in an article in early 2020 just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk oversight is an essential aspect of strategic board leadership. Since …

November 02, 2021 - Recently, Russell Investments asked Cerulli Associates to interview 10 of our asset management partners, as well as 10 organizations that had participated in our 2021 Partner Innovation Lab, an annual roundtable event where leading asset owners brainstorm their greatest concerns …

In this era of seemingly continuous challenges,  it is imperative that boards know how to engage in difficult conversations about matters of institutional importance. Yet too often board members, wary of creating disagreements within the board and/or of potentially embarrassing …

October 27, 2021 - The Council of Finance Committee Chairs, building on its inaugural July 2021 discussion of institutional finance issues boards must consider as part of their fiduciary duties, in October 2021 examined the problem of how to quantify and capture unrecorded liabilities …

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