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Mark Ridenour: ACTA Board Member and Former Board Chairman, Miami University
Mark Ridenour graduated from Miami University in 1982 with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He began his career at National...
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Governing Boards: Raising Consciousness
November 1, 2006 by Anne D. Neal Download PDF
ACTA president Anne D. Neal chairs a panel on trustee leadership at the National Association of Scholars’ annual meeting in Cambridge, MA.
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Dr. Dorian Abbot
Professor Abbot was the focus of a highly publicized cancellation in October 2021 when MIT administrators canceled...
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Governing State Governing Boards
The Utah Board of Higher Education is undergoing its second structural overhaul in three years in an ongoing push to centralize the oversight of the state’s 16 public institutions. The latest effort will reduce the board from 18 to 10 members and prioritize...
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Insider Deals Are Common Among Nonprofit Boards, Study Finds
Almost half of large nonprofit groups make insider deals with board members, and one-third of those deals occur without the prior approval of other board members, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. The study, which is described in a report released on Monday, “Nonprofit Governance in the United States: Findings on Performance […]
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Advice for Senate on Nonprofit Boards
Ever since U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley announced last fall that the Senate Finance Committee he leads would investigate the management of American University as part of its overall review of nonprofit governance, college officials at institutions other than American have wondered if and how that inquiry might be broadened, and whether that examination might […]
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The Potty-Trained Trustee
You would think that a survey of “American higher education governing boards” conducted by an organization called the Association of Governing Boards would survey the actual trustees that make up these boards. Well, think again. The AGB’s latest report, presented as a “Survey of Higher Education Governance,” does not in fact feature a single trustee. […]
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