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Board Composition Diversity
Understand why diverse composition is important to boards.
This guide helps boards and leaders consider the importance of board diversity and why issues of diversity and equity, beyond composition, are important to boards.
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Board Advocacy
Understand how board members can play a role in advocacy efforts.
This guide helps boards and leaders appropriately leverage their networks, volunteer status, and passion to impact policies.
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External Influences
Understand the importance of independence from external influences.
This guide helps boards and leaders avoid undue pressure from external influences and stakeholders, as well as understand how this supports academic freedom and accreditation.
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Assessing Individual Board Members
The essential guide to effectively assessing individual board members.
This guide helps boards and leaders understand the basics of individual board member assessment and identifies complimentary tools to help you get started.
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Presidential Assessments
The essential guide to effective presidential assessments.
This guide helps boards and leaders prepare for presidential assessments. Understand the benefits of presidential assessments, different types of assessments, and the sequence assessments typically follow.
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Board Chair-Presidential Relations
Strengthen the relationship between the board chair and president.
This guide helps boards and leaders understand the importance of healthy board chair-presidential relations. Learn best practices for maintaining and strengthening this key partnership.
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Assessing the Board Chair
The essential guide to assessing the board chair.
This guide helps boards and leaders prepare for assessing the board chair. Understand the benefits, timing, and process of board chair assessments.
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Assessing the Board
The essential guide to effectively assessing the board.
This guide helps boards and leaders understand the basics of board assessment and outlines recommendations based on AGB's experience.
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Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech
Understand the basics of academic freedom and freedom of speech.
This guide helps boards and leaders understand the purpose and scope of academic freedom and freedom of speech, including the impact on higher education academics and programming.
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Planning and Strategy
The essential guide to setting the strategic direction of an institution or foundation.
This guide equips board members to understand the elements of strategy and planning, the situations requiring different types of strategic planning processes, and the responsibility of boards for …
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