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The Role of the Trustee in Ensuring Student Success
ACTA vice president of policy Michael Poliakoff's remarks at the 2011 Indiana Trustees Academy panel discussion.
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Making public university leaders in government transparency—a checklist of questions and answers
May 1, 2010 by ACTA Download PDFTrustees are fiduciaries and at the heart of fiduciary responsibility is transparency. The following is a brief checklist of 14 key indicators that state public university boards should report to taxpayers, parents, students and other stakeholders.
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Trustees Behaving Correctly
To the Editor: Richard P. Chait grievously errs in citing two board actions at the State University of New York, with which I was deeply involved, as examples of "inept governance”. The SUNY Board of Trustees did in 1998 institute a system-wide core curriculum, badly needed to equip undergradua...
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The Role of University Trustees
Re “Deal Allows University of Texas President to Keep Job for Now” (news article, July 10): In the case involving the president of the University of Texas at Austin, William C. Powers Jr., many in the academy would have you believe that trustees were the villains: elite power brokers trying to o...
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Managing a 'New Era' for University Trustees
Trustees and directors who oversee U.S. higher education in this country must become more active in their roles, as this country's universities and colleges face serious challenges of educational quality, cost and global competitiveness, the American Council ...
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