On April 26, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule regarding “exempt” and “nonexempt” employee status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA). The new rule revises the standard salary threshold and will classify more workers as nonexempt and therefore eligible for overtime pay. The threshold will be raised beginning July 1, then again on January 1, 2025.
WASHINGTON, DC (May 2, 2024)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) today released Top Strategic Issues for Boards 2024–2025, a biennial resource for higher education board members, chief executives, and senior administrators.
WASHINGTON, DC (March 12, 2024)—Today, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) published Diversifying the Governing Board: An AGB Report, a qualitative survey examining higher education boards’ efforts to expand the diversity of their compositions.
E. Gordon Gee likes to tell a joke that goes like this: When he first became a university president, in 1981, at age 37, he was doing a bad job. One day a couple of older professors told him as much. His problem, they informed the young president, was that he did not look or act the part.
“It’s a true blend of academic affairs and student life in a way that I haven’t seen at other universities,” Elizabeth Davis, president of Furman University (S.C.), says about the Furman Avantage.
WASHINGTON, DC (February 29, 2024)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) announced today that Marie Sullivan and Tom Sullivan (no relation) were elected to the AGB Board of Directors, joining 15 other distinguished leaders. AGB is the premier organization advocating strategic board governance in higher education.
A group of Harvard Jewish alumni is scouring the school’s course offerings, critiquing diversity and inclusion policies, and lobbying top administration in an attempt to root out what they view as pervasive antisemitism plaguing the university.
State senators blocked the latest effort to reform how board members at public New Mexico institutions are chosen.
The Babson College Board of Trustees recently was honored as one of the four recipients of the 2024 John W. Nason Award for Board Leadership by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB).
