Fewer Meetings
The purpose of boards should be broad oversight, not micromanagement. One way to lessen the opportunities for boards to meddle in day-to-day activities of university administrators is to schedule fewer…
Month: April 2018
Better Boards
In my most recent book, We’re Smothering Our Universities, I hypothesized a scene wherein the famous artist, Michelangelo, was forced to paint the Sistine Chapel under the supervision of a political…
Reforming the Governance of Our Universities
Here’s my challenge to you: Choose any public university. Now figure out the names of the folks who serve as members of that institution’s governing board. It might be called…
We’re Smothering Our Universities–Here It Is!
No. We’re not planning an event to smother our universities. I’m talking about a book. This week (April 8 – 14) I hope to release the second book in the…