The essential guide to assessing the board chair. This guide helps boards and leaders prepare for assessing the board chair. Understand the benefits, timing, and process of board chair assessments. Download this FAQ guide to learn answers to the …

The essential guide to effectively assessing the board. This guide helps boards and leaders understand the basics of board assessment and outlines recommendations based on AGB's experience. Download this FAQ guide to learn answers to the following: Why is …

Understand the basics of academic freedom and freedom of speech. This guide helps boards and leaders understand the purpose and scope of academic freedom and freedom of speech, including the impact on higher education academics and programming. Download …

The essential guide to setting the strategic direction of an institution or foundation. This guide equips board members to understand the elements of strategy and planning, the situations requiring different types of strategic planning processes, and the responsibility of boards for …

The essential guide and benchmarks for selecting a board chair. This guide captures the process of selecting a board chair and outlines characteristics of an effective board chair, responsibilities, and some potential red flags. This resource is part of the Board Chair Toolkit, …

The essential guide and benchmarks for community colleges. Community colleges, also known as technical colleges or city colleges, are the most common type of two-year higher education institutions. This guide provides an overview of community colleges, as well as benchmarks for …

The essential responsibilities and benchmarks for community colleges. Governing boards of community colleges are legally and ethically charged with responsibilities for leading their institutions. This guide outlines those responsibilities and provides some benchmarks for board size and diversity. Download this …

Effectively manage your institution's major gifts and naming rights. In these times of rapid social change, colleges, universities, and foundations must embrace new approaches to vetting and administering gifts. This guide provides an overview of why managing controversial gifts and naming …

Effectively lead your institution’s response to a crisis. In times of crisis, it is the board’s responsibility to ensure the right people have the right training and experience to conduct a professional emergency response. This guide provides general guidelines for developing …

Effectively guide your institution’s communications response to a crisis. Boards have a crucial role to play when their institutions are facing a crisis. That role is different from the role of the president, but no less important. This guide provides general …