On April 18, ACTA hosted a webinar to explore the role of trustees in controlling institutional spending. In “Student Debt and the Spending Crisis: What Trustees Need to Know to Spend Wisely”, ACTA Data Analyst Fellow Anna Sillers moderated a panel featuring Dr. Matthew Hendricks, economist and former faculty member at the University of Tulsa; The Honorable Hank Brown, former U.S. senator and former president of the University of Colorado System; Dr. Robert Dickeson, cofounder of Academic Strategy Partners and former president of the University of Northern Colorado; and Dr. Alice Brown, former president of the Appalachian College Association. The panelists offered excellent advice and best practices to attendees on how to use data to make wise spending decisions, how to reallocate resources to support high-quality programs, and how to leverage the diverse backgrounds and expertise of individual board members. Watch it in the videos below.
This webinar is part of The American Council of Trustees and Alumni’s Institute For Effective Governance™.
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