Message from the Chair
By Louis Charpentier

Today, board professionals can and must play a critical role in ensuring that board chairs and members are aware of good governance practices, both in higher education institutions and elsewhere, and of the resources available to boards to support them in their work. Read more...

Coping with the economic crisis

AGB thanks the board professionals who participated in the survey on “The Board and the Current Economic Crisis.” This survey provided a snapshot of changes in board meeting schedules, top priority issues, information needs, trustee engagement, and actions taken in response to the economic crisis. Additional analysis will be available in the March/April issue of Trusteeship magazine.

Visit “AGB Resources for Challenging Economic Times” for articles, books, and other help in understanding and responding to these challenges.

Preview of Board Professionals Workshop.
Think San Diego!
By Heather Fehn

When the Board Professionals Leadership Group and its committees met last summer to plan the 2009 Workshop for Board Professionals, we challenged everyone to “think out of the box” in designing sessions and inviting speakers. Read more...

Get up to speed on technology
during the Annual Workshop
By Jeannie Phillips

The technology track sessions continue at this year’s AGB Workshop for Board Professionals. Read more...

Role of the board professional
By Steve Frieder

An interview with Ann Cieslak and Dick “Mers” Mersereau, two veteran board professionals, who wrote the new Board Basics Publication about the unique function that board professionals play in higher education governance. Read more...

From the field: Presidential compensation
By Marc Schaeffer

Whatever your particular role as board professional staff, your capacity to add real value to the work of your board is enhanced if you are well versed in the substantive and public relations issues that boards must heed in making decisions regarding presidential compensation. Read more...

Member spotlight: Interview with Jeff LeClerc
By Anne Shaw

This issue’s member spotlight features Jeff LeClerc, University Secretary at the University of Manitoba in Canada interviewed by Anne Shaw, Associate Secretary of the Regents, University of California. Read more...

Web portals: Ready-made or do it yourself?

From multi-purpose websites to homegrown portals to commercial portal packages, your colleagues have examples and experiences to share. Read more...

Calendar of upcoming events

Webinars, workshops, Institutes and symposia—a full schedule of resources for board professionals. Read more...