A healthy, high-performing governing board is key to a community college’s success. Good boards attract and appoint good leaders, and when all focus together on student success, they benefit the whole campus and community.

Likewise, a dysfunctional board hurts the entire college and community. In the media, examples of bad board-administrator relationships abound. For instance, a California community college faced a million-dollar separation agreement after its board and president failed to work effectively together. In Alabama, governing board members faced charges of nepotism while administrators faced charges of misused funds. In the worst cases, colleges with poor-performing boards faced loss of accreditation, as did Compton College.

This session will help community college administrators improve their institutional governing boards, thus improving their colleges overall. Participants will learn how to turn a dysfunctional board—whether overly intrusive or aloof—into one that provides effective leadership and generates useful ideas.

The seminar is intended to help all college administrators who work with a governing board, whatever its size and appointment process. Aspiring CEOs will also gain insight from this session.

Knowledge benefits for you:
• Understand your critical role in improving board performance
• Understand how board performance and overall college success are linked
• Learn to improve a dysfunctional board’s performance by changing its meeting dynamics and helping the board focus on the bigger picture
• Learn to keep your governing board from micromanaging or disengaging
• Have the opportunity to ask questions in an anonymous format

Who can benefit from hearing this seminar:
• Community college presidents
• Community college vice presidents
• Chancellors
• Members of boards of trustees
• Other leaders aspiring to the CEO level