Tag: Board Governance

  Private universities rarely invite the public into the room when they decide to reform their boards. In this conversation, Cathy Light, Board Secretary at the California Institute of Technology, joins Dr. Drumm McNaughton to share how Caltech streamlined an oversized board, redefined trustee engagement, and built a governance model designed to evolve alongside higher education’s shifting challenges. When Overloaded Agendas Push University Governance Off Strategy One of the fastest ways to tell a board is losing its strategic edge is to look at how its meetings are structured. If most of the time is spent listening to reports, reviewing slides, and catching up on information that could have been read in advance, there’s little space left for forward-looking discussion. When meetings are dominated by updates, questions often drift toward

Overcoming Governance Challenges in Higher Education Changing Higher Ed Podcast 122 with Guest Dick Chait In this episode of Changing Higher Ed podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Richard “Dick” Chait, two leading experts on governance and management in higher education, discuss how the governing structures of colleges and universities have changed over the years. Chait and McNaughton also break down the different challenges facing public and private institutions, the fundamental attributes of effective boards and individual trustees, and how the roles and responsibilities of boards and trustees continue to evolve to meet the challenges facing institutions of higher education. Dr. Dick Chait, professor emeritus of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has been studying institutional governance since the mid-1970s. Prior to his tenure at Harvard, Chait served as a