April 29, 2010
Governing Boards Should Look Beyond Alumni for Trustees, Report Says
Alumni are common fixtures on college governing boards. They are better prepared to be trustees, the conventional wisdom holds, because they understand their alma mater's culture. But a new study contradicts that notion, finding that alumni are no more prepared to serve on boards than are their colleagues who attended college elsewhere.
The paper, scheduled to be discussed this weekend at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, analyzed
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