Meetings are the connective tissue of higher education. They are where strategy meets reality, where faculty and administrators align priorities, and where shared governance is exercised. Yet, for ...

Q: Do bylaws allowing action without a board meeting supersede Davis-Stirling Act requirements? My HOA’s bylaws provide as follows: “Any action required or permitted to be taken by the board may be ...

Board meetings have a gravitational pull toward reporting. Without intentionality around the format, the deck grows, the ...

You can feel it the second a meeting wobbles: cameras off, vague goals, fifteen minutes gone to status theater. Meanwhile, the real work sits in another tab. The fix is not another framework. It is a ...

What happens in a meeting is decided before the meeting, by the process. Two weeks before beginning a pastorate in Lancaster, Ohio, I attended my new church’s business meeting. The outgoing pastor had ...