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Focused on governance issues facing institutionally related foundations and their boards, the Forum creates opportunities for board leaders and executive teams to share insights, ask important questions, and learn how to create solutions-based strategies founded on best practices.

A university official recently told me of a discussion in a search committee for the general counsel. The president described what they should look for in a candidate: “I want a lawyer—not a counselor. I don’t need or want a lawyer …

Aired: August 18, 2021 Online program management is more important than ever before since nearly every student in America has now taken online classes because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher education institutions can no longer afford not to learn, master, and …

Aired: July 27, 2021 In early 2021, trustees representing every public university in Colorado joined together to form the Colorado Trustee Network (CTN). This coalition’s mission is to support Coloradan trustees in enacting meaningful change related to Colorado’s investment in higher …

Aired: July 13, 2021 AGB traditionally focuses on the work of the board as a whole, but a board is only as strong as its individual board members. This past spring, AGB published the Principles of Trusteeship: How to Become a …

June 2, 2021 - This past year brought unprecedented disruption at every level of the U.S educational system, with the effects most profound for low-income communities and communities of color...

With federal, state, and local laws as well as institutional and system policy compliance requirements, institutions of higher education face increasingly...

As enormous pressures weigh on all of higher education and many schools fight for survival, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to deal economic blows to the sector. Most schools are heavily dependent on tuition revenues to cover budgeted operations. With enrollment …

In honor of its centennial, Trusteeship magazine interviewed Richard Chait about AGB’s role in higher education governance over the last 100 years. Chait is a professor emeritus at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education who studies the management and governance …

Temporarily Out of Stock   This resource for individual board members captures the essence of highly effective trusteeship in a concise and easy-to-use format. The Principles of Trusteeship lays out a vision for more effective boards based on more effective individual board …