AGB joined the higher education community in sending a letter to the Department of Education regarding Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment Regulations. Read the Comments→
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AGB joined the higher education community in sending a letter to the Senate Majority Leader and the Senate Minority Leader regarding the Stop Campus Hazing Act. Read the Comments→
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At its Oct. 22 meeting, the Colorado Mountain College Board of Trustees voted to add two new at-large trustee seats to its board as permitted under C.R.S. § 23-71-110. Currently, the CMC board consists of seven elected trustees who represent the following school districts: Eagle County, Lake County, Aspen, Steamboat Springs, Summit, Salida, Roaring Fork RE-1, Garfield District 16 and Garfield RE-2. Since 2020, a non-voting trustee liaison has represented Salida on the CMC board.
Ilya Nemenman, an Emory University physics professor, seethed as summer break neared its end. The problem was that the president had not received the University Senate’s approval first. “This is not just a corporation,” Dr. Nemenman chided the president, Gregory L. Fenves, during an Aug. 28 meeting, according to interviews and contemporaneous notes that summarized the discussion.
Like much of America, higher education is consumed with uncertainty over Tuesday’s presidential election.
Editor’s note: This guest column was written by the leaders of the employee councils, the shared governance groups at CSU. Shared governance in higher education is widely recognized as “essential to the health, vitality, and future of America’s colleges and universities” (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges White Paper, March 2017). Colorado State University has utilized a shared governance model for more than a century.
“There’s a lot of levers and tools that will get their attention day one,” Steve Scalise, the second-highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, said at a meeting with a lobbying group early this month while discussing ways to punish universities for alleged civil rights violations.
WASHINGTON, DC (October 23, 2024)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) is pleased to announce the release of the second edition of The Investment Committee, authored by Nicole Wellmann Kraus.
Only at the nation’s richest university can a billion-plus-dollar fundraising haul equal disappointment.
More than a year after the school’s current president announced his retirement, Madison College is starting over in a search for its next leader. Three finalists were scheduled to attend forums this week and next week in Madison, where employees, students and community members could provide input.
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