May 11, 2007

What It's Like to Serve on 2 Boards at Once

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Fewer than 10 percent of respondents to The Chronicle's survey of trustees of four-year colleges said they served on more than one college board at a time. Experts in trusteeship have long discouraged the practice.

"To be conscientious, you really cannot spread yourself too thin," says Richard T. Ingram, a former president of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. Serving on a college board has become more consequential, he notes, and "there is more demand on

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