How boards lead small colleges /
Brown, Alice W.(Alice Williams),1942-author.
Hayford, Elizabeth R.,author.
"This professional book (in the Higher Education Leadership Essentials series) encourages presidents of small liberal schools to consider new approaches to working with their boards and offers ideas to trustees about how they can elicit new thinking from their institution's president without interfering in internal operations. Combining theory with case studies, the book is aimed at administrators at colleges (whose boards may include alumni or community members) with operations and interests different from those of university administrators"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Characteristics of boards -- Selecting trustees -- Training and supporting trustees -- Basic responsibilities of trustees -- Hiring and supporting the president -- Evaluating and possibly terminating the president -- Building institutional stability -- Being responsible to those outside the boardroom -- A critical element in making a small college great -- Steps to the future.
"This professional book (in the Higher Education Leadership Essentials series) encourages presidents of small liberal schools to consider new approaches to working with their boards and offers ideas to trustees about how they can elicit new thinking from their institution's president without interfering in internal operations. Combining theory with case studies, the book is aimed at administrators at colleges (whose boards may include alumni or community members) with operations and interests different from those of university administrators"--
College trustees
College administrators
Small colleges
College administrators.
College trustees.
Small colleges