Crisis Leadership

The new edition of this essential guide to Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) will be available for purchase and e-book download (for AGB members) later this month. Excerpted below are brief selections from the text which AGB feels may offer helpful guidance …

Every moment matters now in responding to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and AGB is urging the boards of U.S. higher education institutions to move quickly to mitigate the crisis while safeguarding the missions of their institutions. AGB will …

Colleges and universities are grappling with how to tackle the national opioid crisis as it spills onto campuses across the country. Several higher education institutions have initiated efforts to make the opioid antidote—naloxone—more widely available on their campuses and raise …

As higher education faces ever-changing challenges today reflecting news headlines such as opioids, sexual misconduct on campus, undue political influence, workforce preparation, college closures, and enrollment declines, overseeing risks has become an increased priority for governing boards seeking to drive …

In this continuing series of columns of the “Law and ....” variety, the next up is law and crisis management. Underlying all of these columns is the proposition that the law and lawyers are critical and indivisible components of these …

While boards have a fiduciary responsibility to exercise sound crisis leadership they are sometimes blind to the potential for a serious crisis at their institution. The list of current crises engulfing higher education calls for greater integrity and a heightened …

As the court proceedings and fallout from the Varsity Blues college admissions fraud and racketeering scandal continue to make headlines across the country and around the world, the public sees yet another reason to distrust institutions and higher education itself. …

In the wake of the recent admissions scandal and other crises that have engulfed higher education, AGB convened a webinar on March 27 entitled Institutions in Crisis: Risk and Responsibility for Higher Education Governance. The participants included Terrence MacTaggart, PhD, …

March 27, 2019 - On March 12, the FBI announced that 50 individuals were charged with participating in a nationwide conspiracy that facilitated cheating at several high-profile colleges and universities. The governing boards of these …

Institutional clients should strive for the right balance between over-use and underuse of lawyers. There is no right answer for how much advice to seek. It depends on many variables, including the size of the institution and the legal office …