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Message from the Chair
By Louis Charpentier

For academic institutions, September marks an energizing time of renewal, of exciting beginnings, of a new year. In that context, colleagues, I would like to wish you all a happy new year and much success through the academic and governance cycles before you. Read more...

Member spotlight
By Anne Shaw

Mitzi Norton and Chris NystromThis issue's member spotlight features interviews with two board professionals who attended the Workshop for Board Professionals for the first time this year and who are both relatively “new to the job.” They are Mitzi Norton, assistant to the president and liaison to the board at Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago (read more…), and Chris Nystrom, corporate and board relations program manager for the University of Oregon Foundation (read more…)

2009 Workshop for Board Professionals
By Meredith Harper Bonham

San Diego Sheraton

Plan to attend the 2009 Workshop for Board Professionals, April 17-19 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina. Read more...

Tips and tricks
By Mitzi Norton

Learn strategies for managing the task of taking board meeting minutes with tips gleaned from the AGB Board Professionals Listserve. Read more...

From the field
By Marc Schaeffer

An examination of E-Board Books, provider-hosted services that allow you to organize, compile, revise, print, and put on the Web a secure version of your board packet and communicate electronically with board members. Marc Schaeffer looks at the pros and cons. Read more...

News you can use
By Jeannie Phillips

webinarFind out about upcoming Webinars, a vital professional development tool, and data you can use to update your job description. Read more...

SAVE THE DATE!

San Diego, site of 2009 AGB conference
San Diego
April 17-19, 2009
AGB 2009 Workshop for Board Professionals
April 18-21, 2009
National Conference on Trusteeship

OTHER DATES TO NOTE
(and don't miss our extended calendar):

October 30, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
A Conversation for and among Board Chairs of Independent Colleges and Universities
Regional meeting for board chairs and chairs-elect only

November 10-11, 2008
Baltimore
Financial Strategies in an Uncertain Economy
Conference for presidents, trustees, and CFOs of independent colleges and universities

December 5, 2008
Atlanta
Effective Campus-System Relationships
One-day meeting to address ways to enhance the complex relationship between public colleges and universities, their system offices, foundations, and boards

This periodic E-bulletin is intended to inform debate and discussion, not to represent or imply endorsement by the association or its members. We welcome your feedback on the features you find useful in this newsletter, what you would like to see in future newsletters, or any other comments. Copyright ©2008 Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. All rights reserved. Click here to subscribe.

Editor: Lorette Weldon, director, Zwingle Resource Center and Library, AGB. Newsletter Coordinator: Nancy Asin, assistant secretary, University of Michigan, and member, Marketing and Membership Committee, BPLG. Officers of the AGB Board Professionals Leadership Group (BPLG) are: Louis Charpentier, chair, BPLG, and secretary of the governing council, University of Toronto; Ann Cieslak, vice chair, BPLG, and executive director and corporate secretary, University of Minnesota Board of Regents; Anne Shaw, secretary, BPLG, and associate secretary of the regents, University of California; and Richard Mersereau, past chair, BPLG, and secretary of the college, Bowdoin College.

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