Blog Posts

February 07, 2024 - You are viewing the Institution version of this CEO Update. Institutionally Related Foundation and System versions are also available. It’s never the wrong time to celebrate excellence, and I have two examples to share: I am excited to celebrate the 2024 recipients …

January 24, 2024 - Recently released Institute of International Education (IIE)/U.S. Department of State “Open Doors” data indicate that the total number of international students studying at United States postsecondary institutions in 2022–2023 rebounded from a 15 percent pandemic-fueled decrease between 2019–2020 and 2020–2021. …

January 23, 2024 - In the conversations we have with higher education organizations, there is a recognition that the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence (AI), automation, and personalization is upon us. Technological progress is widening the gap between the data-driven world …

January 19, 2024 - More than a decade ago, AGB published a report titled The Leadership Imperative that focused on the relationship between the governing board and the president in colleges and universities.

January 16, 2024 - Good governance could deliver a higher return and more resilience in endowments and foundations portfolios. Strong investment governance helps make a tangible contribution to portfolio outcomes, particularly over the long-term time horizons of endowments and foundations (E&F) portfolios. The opening years of …

January 10, 2024 - Happy New Year! I invite you to view this month’s CEO update, which focuses on your AGB in 2024. Click here for a transcript of the video. As I outline in …

December 19, 2023 - College and university campuses are forums for vigorous free speech and debate as well as safe spaces that aim to create a sense of belonging. Yet what happens when those two deeply held values are at odds with one another?

December 18, 2023 - The November meeting of the AGB Council of Finance Committee Chairs opened with a welcome from Andrew Lounder, associate vice president for programs, who outlined AGB’s plans for the National Conference on Trusteeship meeting in Boston on March 26, 2024.

December 13, 2023 - You are viewing the Institution version of this CEO Update. Institutionally Related Foundation and System versions are also available. I once heard a story about a car manufacturing company CEO visiting a new plant in the 1980s. Just before he arrived, …

December 07, 2023 - In two recent AGB blog posts, former public university presidents Carol Cartwright and Ellen-Earle Chaffee have teed up the challenges facing college and university boards, with a focus on the unprecedented challenges institutional presidents are facing (see Related Resources below), …