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What Board Members Need to Know About Cybersecurity
In the digital age, higher education institutions must guard against a complex array of risks, from data breaches to ransomware attacks. Designed specifically for members of college and university governing boards and to strengthen board capacity for effective oversight in …
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Advisory Councils in Higher Education
Governing board members face increasing, and sometimes competing, pressures to govern better, while also working to enhance their effectiveness as advocates and fundraisers. They are expected to bring specialized skills and experiences to the board table, while also giving more …
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Strategic Thinking and Planning in Higher Education: A Focus on the Future
This text combines theories and interpretations of strategic thinking and planning with practical ways those ideas can be, and have been, implemented at colleges and universities as they focus on the future.
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The Role of the Board Professional
As the primary liaison, planner, adviser, and staffer of a governing board, the board professional plays a unique and critical role in higher education. This essential, yet often under-the-radar professional connects the board to the administration and the institution and …
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Strategic Thinking Bundle
The fast-evolving realities of the higher education environment mandate that governing boards pay close attention to a wide range of interconnected factors. The four publications in this bundle contextualize the role of the board within this landscape and outline actionable …
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Legal Compliance Bundle
Higher education institutions today are faced with an unprecedented number of legal risks. As fiduciaries of their institutions, board members must understand these risks, as well as the processes and procedures by which the board addresses them. This bundle includes …
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Effective Board Chairs: A Guide for University and College Chairs
College and university board chairs today seldom preside over quiet, traditional institutions. Higher education is in transition, as change on many fronts—social, economic, political, demographic, and technological—brings both tensions and opportunities that test institutions’ capacity for innovation, adaptive behavior, and …
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Legal Primer for Board Operations
Board professionals work closely with boards and their chairs and perform a vital function for their institutions. In today’s legal environment, it is imperative that board professionals and board members have the resources to do their work effectively and in …
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What Board Members Need to Know About Enrollment Management
Contemporary strategic enrollment management entails planning, implementing, and developing administrative structures to develop and support strategies and tactics to regulate patterns of students entering the institution and through to graduation. It must do so in a way that is both …
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The Board's Role in Financial Oversight
An often-volatile economy, changing demographics, and technological innovations in educational delivery are among the dramatic changes across higher education that have forced boards and institutions to question the viability of the existing business model. Flat or declining state support in …
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