Reports and Surveys
2010
This March 2010 report includes a detailed summary of the most relevant
issues, legislative proposals, and proposed policies facing the
governance and oversight of public higher education.
Executive Summary
Declining fiscal conditions continue be the major higher education issue in the states. Funding for higher education was essentially flat from FY 2008 to 2009, with state and local appropriation declines offset by federal stimulus dollars...
2010
Over the past two years, adoption of the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (UPMIFA) has fundamentally changed the regulatory context in which boards make decisions regarding spending from underwater endowments. AGB, in partnership with Commonfund Institute, surveyed 207 institutions in the 46 states and the District of Columbia that have adopted (UPMIFA), collecting information about current and prior spending and...
2010
Coordinating boards and commissions have long been members of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), but we have never attempted to systematically collect data about how they are structured internally or about the citizens who serve on them. This report does that. It provides us considerable information about the citizens who serve on these boards and commissions (a demographic profile), as well as some of the...
2009
Introduction
This sixth edition of the State Governance Report summarizes the most relevant issues, legislative proposals, and proposed
policies facing public higher education and its governance and oversight. The majority of coverage is devoted to the current
or just recently completed 2009 legislative sessions. Other issues covered in this report include court decisions and actions
by state higher education agencies and public institutions....
2009
This report provides an overview of current financial conditions in public higher education. Using such metrics as funding levels, budget cuts, strategies for cost reductions, creative board actions, tuition and financial aid levels, enrollment projections, private support, and current board practices, we have tried to capture the essence of the challenges college and university boards are facing and how they are responding.
As the economy...
2009
This report highlights and recognizes award recipients for their efforts to develop and implement the state's most successful programs, projects, and activities that help meet the goals of the Texas higher education plan, Closing the Gaps, by 2015. Many worked to develop and implement effective programs and activities. The Houston Endowment, Inc. provided support to the Texas Coordinating Board and the Association of Governing Boards of...
2009
This survey was jointly conducted by AGB and United Educators and reports data on attitudes, practices and policies regarding enterprise risk management among American colleges and universities. The survey was completed by more than 600 respondents in June 2008.
Additional survey data
Enterprise Risk Management: Best Practices for Boards,
Presidents, and Chancellors
Worksheet
for Oversight of Systematic Risk Assessment
2009
This 2009 study was conducted by AGB with the generous support of a
grant from TIAA-CREF Institute. The paper reports common practices, barriers, and recommendations
for engaging faculty and boards in institutional governance, and
highlights the key role of the president in facilitating effective
governance. The study included presidents, board members, chief academic
officers, and other academic leaders in meetings, interviews, and a...
2009
In March and April of 2009, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), in partnership
with the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and Commonfund Institute,
conducted a survey of colleges, universities, and affiliated foundations in states in which UPMIFA had been enacted in
order to learn how institutions are managing endowment spending under UPMIFA and to inform decision making...
2009
A close look at higher education governance practices at over 700 colleges and universities.
2008
This is the fifth edition of the State Governance Action Report that has been produced since 2000 by AGB’s Ingram Center for Public Trusteeship and Governance. Focusing primarily on state and higher education policies directly affecting governance, trusteeship, and institutionally related foundations, this issue of the Report reminds us that America’s unique form of governance remains unsettled in many states and subject to tinkering in several...
2008
This report summarizes the joint four-year effort of AGB and the Texas Coordinating Board to educate and inform leaders and citizens, and highlights the totality of work thus far of a state confronting major demographic change and achievement gaps in education. Board members, higher education executives, and state policymakers will find the report a useful examination of one state's strategies, initiatives, and ideas on how to tackle one of the...
2008
In 2008 AGB conducted a survey of member institutions to find out more
about the typical work and membership of boards' executive committees
and the relationship between the committee and board. Nearly 500
independent and public colleges and universities participated in the
study. Board chairs and presidents may find the survey highlights and
tips in the January/February 2010 Trusteeship article useful . Separate
data reports for all...
2007
Welcome to the Ingram Center’s State Governance Action Report. Compiled in this report
are state policy developments, including legislation, commissions, and studies, affecting
the structure, responsibilities, and operations of public higher education governing
boards and institutionally related foundations.
Governance and governance-related issues are at the forefront of higher education policy
debates in several states. And if the...
2007
Governors play a crucial role in the governance of public colleges and universities,
in part through their appointments of the citizen volunteers who help steer the policy
course for these complex organizations. The most effective trustees and regents have the
knowledge base—and the leadership, commitment, and listening skills—to craft effective
policy in a rapidly evolving environment.
But governors’ responsibilities don’t end with their...
2006
AGB
launched The Cost Project in 2006 with a generous grant from the Robert
W. Woodruff Foundation. This multiyear effort identified effective
cost-saving measures being taken by public and private
institutions and to stimulate a national dialogue on costs -- on campus
and throughout higher education. The Cost Project offered
guidance for on-campus discussions of cost containment; made
presentations at AGB meetings over the two years of the...
2006
The Leadership Imperative, a 64-page report of a
year-long, blue-ribbon task force convened by AGB, is a road map for
strengthening the leadership of the men and women who take on the
pressure-cooker jobs of presidents and chancellors of American colleges
and universities.
Chaired by former Virginia Governor Gerald L. Baliles, the AGB Task
Force on the State of the Presidency in American Higher Education
created this report to help...
2005
Based on a 2004 survery of more than 1,000 universities and colleges, Policies, Practices, and Composition of Governing Boards of Public College and Universities reports describe current boards, board members, committees, and policies.
Find out about trends and changes in board governance. Results include a profile of board committee structures, highlights of recent changes, and demographic information on trustees (age, ethnicity, gender).
2005
Based on a 2004 survey of more than 1,000 universities and colleges, these reports describe current boards, board members, committees, and policies. Results include a profile of board committee structures, highlights of recent changes, and demographic information on trustees (age, ethnicity, gender).
Contents:
Highlights from the SurveyProfile of the Typical Governing Board of an Independent or Public CollegeComparison of Independent and Public...
2005
Charter and enterprise universities emerged as major issues in recent legislative sessions.
Although charter colleges or universities have been debated previously in a few
states, they are still relatively new and untested concepts in higher education policy.
Charter and enterprise universities, or similar designations, redefine an institution’s relationship
to the state and are largely outgrowths of shifts in state funding capacity. To some...
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