May 11, 2007

For Trustees, Faith in College Presidents Lies at the Heart of Good Relationships

By PAUL FAIN

Personal scandal is more likely to get a leader fired than is failing to balance a budget or meet fund-raising goals

In 2006, in the wake of a spending scandal involving a former president, American University's Board of Trustees made several broad changes in its procedures to, among other things, become more active in overseeing the president. Observers of university governance expected trustees at other institutions to follow suit.

But despite the attention those reforms

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