What Does It Take to Lead? An Inside Look at the Requisites and Qualifications of Trustees of Public Higher Education Boards

• In Event: 25.067 - Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: 25.067-9 - Leaders Moving Through the Academy

Abstract

Across the nation, trustees are given de facto control over all facets of higher education institutions. This critical distinction stands in contrast with the minimal, outdated, or nonexistent requirements for the trusteeship as documented in board by-laws of the seventy-five institutions reviewed for this study.

Author

• Raquel M. Rall, University of California - Riverside