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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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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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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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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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Top 10 Campus Legal Issues for Boards
A principle responsibility of a board member is to understand the environment in which his or her institution operates. Today, that environment includes a host of legal risks that every institution of higher education must be prepared to assess and …
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Understanding Foundation Finances: Financial Oversight and Planning for Foundation Boards
Public university and college foundations play a critical role in helping public institutions achieve their missions and make college more affordable, accessible, and attainable. In challenging economic times, public foundations are being called upon by their host institutions to raise …
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Educational Quality Bundle
As a fundamental part of its stewardship, the board is responsible for assuring the larger community and stakeholders to whom it is accountable that the education offered by the institution is of the highest possible quality.
Making the Grade: How …
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The Academic Affairs Committee
The latest installment of the Effective Committee Series covers the duties and responsibilities of the academic affairs committee. It is through the academic affairs committee that the board ensures the institution’s or system’s principal purposes—teaching and learning—are met.
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The Governance Committee (Foundation Boards)
The governance committee (also known as the “committee on directors,” the “nominating committee” or the “committee on trustees”) is arguably one of the most important committees an institutionally related foundation can empower. As state investments in public higher education are …
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