Video: Ben Novak on Trusteeship and Shared Governance

Andy Nash

From Inside Academia TV.

Key Take-Aways

  • 1:30  A board of trustees, as an executor of a trust (1 min 45 sec)
  • 4:45  A new Standing Order: 60′s radicals and the demise of tripartite government (6 min 15 sec)
  • 11:05  Trustees vest all power in the university administration president (1 min)
  • 13:25  The control of what information trustees receive (1 min 45 sec)
  • 15:20  The admin as middle-man between trustees and the university (3 min 30 sec)
  • 18:50  Their own liaison with faculty and students independent of the admin? (45 sec)
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