The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice today announced that Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, President and Founder, has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) Council for Student Success.
Lindenwood University today announced that University President Dr. John Porter has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) Council of Presidents.
Eckerd College announced today that President Damián J. Fernández, Ph.D., has been appointed to the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) Council of Presidents.

WASHINGTON, DC (December 14, 2021)—The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), the premier organization advocating strategic board leadership in higher education, today announced new members joining its esteemed advisory councils.
Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents Chair Andrá R. Ward has been selected to serve on the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges’ (AGB) Council for Student Success.
Roger Perry had a mentor in his first year as a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill trustee in 2002, an experienced board member who would impart a simple piece of advice: “First do no harm.”
Despite progress, college and university boards of trustees are still not representative of the students they serve, according to new research.
Members of college governing bodies at both public and private institutions remain majority White and male, despite some small shifts in board demographics over the last five years.
At a moment when race is at the core of so many of higher education’s most intense and defining debates, the final authorities setting college and university policies still tend to be white men.

