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Rooted in current best practices, A Complete Guide to Presidential Search provides practical information and expert advice on planning a search, recruiting and evaluating candidates, selecting a president, and ensuring a successful transition.

This signature AGB publication presents a governance standard specifically developed to help college, university, and system boards to understand and apply the principles of good board governance and to assess and improve their own governance practice.Buying for the full board? A 20% discount will be applied to orders of 10 or more copies.

The selection of a president is often the most consequential decision a governing board must make. To help boards get it right, these two new AGB Press publications provide expert guidance and up-to-date information on all phases of the search—and beyond.

Boards need to be just as nimble and adaptive as their institutions must be to meet the shifting challenges they face. The process of committee restructuring has thus become a central feature of effective board and committee practice and should be understood as an ongoing responsibility of every board.

In the digital age, higher education institutions must guard against a complex array of risks, from data breaches to ransomware attacks.

The issue of freedom of speech on college and university campuses has captured the interest of the nation and attracted considerable media attention. As board members and institutional leaders address the difficult questions that arise in relation to this controversial issue, they need to balance the competing tensions between individual freedom and expectations of civility and safety.

As the primary liaison, planner, adviser, and staffer of a governing board, the board professional plays a unique and critical role in higher education. This essential, yet often under-the-radar professional connects the board to the administration and the institution and focuses every day on the practice of governance and the care and feeding of trustees.

College and university board chairs today seldom preside over quiet, traditional institutions. Higher education is in transition, as change on many fronts—social, economic, political, demographic, and technological—brings both tensions and opportunities that test institutions’ capacity for innovation, adaptive behavior, and even survival.

Since 1969, AGB has tracked data on the composition, policies, and practices of governing boards of public and independent institutions. The research has grown in scope over time to paint a more complete picture of what higher education governance looks like, who the key players are, and how boards operate.

A principle responsibility of a board member is to understand the environment in which his or her institution operates. Today, that environment includes a host of legal risks that every institution of higher education must be prepared to assess and proactively address.

Today's challenging higher education environment demands a new way of making decisions. Changing business models and methodologies for delivering academic programs present new opportunities (as well as risks) and call for innovative responses. This publication aims to "reboot" dialogues among boards, presidents, and faculties.