Trusteeship
Metrics for Effective Governance
This essay recommends a set of performance indicators that enables governing boards to measure institutional success in attaining agreed-upon goals.
Universities and colleges are powerhouses of economic development and crucial to the competitiveness of our country. This paper reviews how trustees can maximize the economic and other impacts of their educational institutions by measuring and rewarding productivity and quality.
Earlier this month, college students from across Illinois crowded the Capitol rotunda. They were protesting the growing costs of college, for which they believed lawmakers were to blame: State funding had been cut earlier this year for a tuition assistance program called the Monetary Award Progra...
ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently hosted a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. for people interested in education issues within the local public policy community. In the audience were folks from special-interest groups, think tanks, governm...
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