Trusteeship
Metrics for Effective Governance
This essay recommends a set of performance indicators that enables governing boards to measure institutional success in attaining agreed-upon goals.
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Improving University Performance Through Measurement and Management
October 1, 2008 by Elizabeth D. Capaldi Download PDF
Universities and colleges are powerhouses of economic development and crucial to the competitiveness of our country. This paper reviews how trustees can maximize the economic and other impacts of their educational institutions by measuring and rewarding productivity and quality.
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Measuring Up
This guide suggests various strategies that boards of trustees can adopt to curb the problem of grade inflation at their schools. Addressing grade inflation is one way to ensure the academic quality of an institution and to guarantee that students really get something for the tuition they pay. ACTA thanks the D.W. Gore Family Foundation […]
Trusteeship
Asking Questions, Getting Answers
This guide, updated in 2019, outlines some of the key questions trustees should ask regarding the academic and financial operations of their institutions. Institutions vary significantly in terms of size, audience, and purpose. But by asking questions and following up, trustees can play a pivotal role in ensuring that the next generation receives a quality […]
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State's public universities need better management
Earlier this month, college students from across Illinois crowded the Capitol rotunda. They were protesting the growing costs of college, for which they believed lawmakers were to blame: State funding had been cut earlier this year for a tuition assistance program called the Monetary Award Program (MAP). Put in place decades ago, MAP provides money […]
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Higher Education Governance: Stewardship or Sham?
ACTA, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, recently hosted a gathering at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. for people interested in education issues within the local public policy community. In the audience were folks from special-interest groups, think tanks, government agencies, non-government organizations, the media and others. The announced agenda was “Higher […]
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Governance Reconceived
The January-February 2011 issue details the reformation of the Corporation (“The Corporation’s 360-Year Tune Up,” page 43). While the changes are newsworthy, aren’t the Fellows missing something? Governance is about more than assigning committees and adding trustees. Boards are fiduciaries of the financial and academic health of their institutions. They ultimately ensure the academic excellence […]
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