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Despite some increases in diversity, 80 percent of private-college trustees and 65 percent of public-college board members are white, a new report shows. ....
Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 02, 2021 TheAssociation of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating ....
AGB Survey Reports Increased Complexity, Responsibilities for Board Professionals Amid Higher Education Upheaval Share Article The primary employees who support higher education governing boards believe the job has become more complicated, in part due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. WASHINGTON (PRWEB) April 06, 2021 The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating strategic board leadership in higher education, today unveiled the results of the 2020 AGB Survey of Board Professionals. The board professional, designated as the primary individual who supports the governing board, is the critical liaison between the board and other key leaders on campus. Overall, the study showed a marked progression in respondents’ perceptions of the job’s complexities and responsibilities compared with five years ago, in part due to the impact ....
(1) Post. As we close out the last week of turbulent 2020, there are 15 boxes stacked precariously on a couch in the small living room of this house. There are another 20 or so identical boxes crammed floor-to-ceiling in a dark corner of the basement. All of them contain what I refer to grandiosely as “my papers.”By that I mean a lifetime’s accumulation of letters, newspaper clippings, reporter’s notebooks, photocopied articles, three-ring binders, file folders, photographs, ID cards and driver’s licenses, magazines and journals (Gramophone, The Armchair Detective, Studies in Bibliography), drafts of short stories and poems and even a few elementary school compositions and college essays. Everything has been stashed away higgledy-piggledy, a system that I’ve been known to rationalize by murmuring a line from poet Wallace Stevens: “A great disorder is an order.” ....