Observable Evidence and Partnership Possibilities for Governing Board Involvement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Content Analysis

Morgan, Demetri L.; LePeau, Lucy A.; Commodore, Felecia

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“…In prior work within the broader higher education landscape, scholars have highlighted the dearth in governance literature (Kater et al., 2022; Kezar & Eckel, 2004; Rall et al., 2021) and board literature (Amey, 2022). In particular, scholars have demonstrated the need for additional research focused on both equity and boards of higher education in order to address some of the most pressing issues that face higher education (Morgan et al., 2022; Rall et al., 2022). For example, institutional barriers that limit student success on campus focus on areas such as subpar advising or absent faculty engagement (Hagedorn et al., 2008; Hallett et al., 2020; Thomas & McFarlane, 2018) have been explored.…”

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Governing towards democracy: Challenges and opportunities of trustees at urban community colleges

Rall

2023

New Drctns Community Coll

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The goal of this article is to enhance understanding and appreciation of the current and potential role of trustees in urban community colleges. In working to make sure students are successful, trustees face numerous challenges in implementing high‐impact policies and practices that center student success. This article establishes a node connecting an understudied topic (governance), and an understudied group (trustees), within an oft‐forgotten context (community colleges). The focus is on the influential role that urban community colleges play in serving educationally, economically, and ethnically marginalized populations and how the trustees must necessarily govern with these groups in mind.

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Governing towards democracy: Challenges and opportunities of trustees at urban community colleges

Rall

2023

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“…At present, China has built the world's largest education system, but the real problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in the field of education still exists, and innovative talents and high-quality laborers are still lacking. The in-depth implementation of the strategy of developing the country through science and education should prioritize education in economic and social development planning, prioritize the investment of financial resources to ensure education and prioritize the allocation of public resources to meet the needs of education and human resources development, as well as actively expanding social investment [3][4]. We should continue to strengthen the scientific concept of education first, vigorously consolidate the fundamental, pioneering and overall role of education, accelerate the creation of a large number of top-notch innovative talents, tens of millions of high-level specialists and hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, and constantly enrich the national talent pool [5].…”

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Analysis of Innovative Talent Cultivation Strategy of Vocational Education under the Strategy of Developing the Country through Science and Education Based on Big Data Investigation

Zhang

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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This paper is based on the big data survey under the strategy of science and education to develop the country and analyze the talent job skill demand. According to the social demand for education and the characteristics of the student source to design and formulate the talent training structure, through the cultivation of talents and social demand for game analysis, using linear programming methods to establish the game model of talent training mode. Game theory equilibrium theory can be used to solve on the basis of benefit function. The results of the teaching quality monitoring and evaluation system show that the students in this school achieved 9.7 in innovation consciousness and 9.5 in practical ability. The one-time signing rate reached 8.9, and the employment rate reached 7.7. It verifies that the talent cultivation strategy proposed in this paper can improve the quality, reduce the cost of talent cultivation of the enterprises and improve the practicability of the talents.

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“…Recent work has made strides toward a fuller understanding of boards. Scholars have explored the training and selection of trustees (Kezar, 2006); influences that may tempt trustees from their fiduciary responsibilities (Bastedo, 2009a, 2009b; Pusser, 2004); the role of trustees in diversity, equity, and inclusion (Morgan et al, 2021; Rall et al, 2018, 2020); and trustees’ role in philanthropy (Barringer & Riffe, in press; Proper, 2019; Zeig et al, 2018). One strand of literature focuses on the various ways that boards shape the behaviors and practices of the universities they oversee (Barringer & Riffe, 2018; Barringer et al, 2020), examining the networks that trustees knit together among various industrial firms and government entities (Barringer & Slaughter, 2016; Barringer et al, 2019; Pusser et al, 2006) and exploring potential consequences of those connections for academic research (Mathies & Slaughter, 2013; Slaughter et al, 2014).…”

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University Board Connectivity, Finances, and Research Production, 1985–2015

Taylor

Barringer

Slaughter

2022

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/context: A growing body of evidence indicates that trustees link the boards of research universities to organizations in other fields. It is less clear whether these board characteristics indicate distinct university contexts with which particular activities would be associated. Research questions: We ask three questions. The first two are descriptive and focus attention on the changing characteristics of university boards: How do boards tie universities to other sectors of society? How has the composition of these ties changed over time? The third is inferential and attends to possible relationships between board characteristics and university activities over time: Are there relationships between board ties to external organizations and university activities? Research design: We answered our first two questions using descriptive analyses. We answered the third question using regression analyses, inclusive of fixed board-level effects, which estimated the within-unit association among board characteristics, control characteristics, and the dependent variables associated with activities of interest. Data collection and analysis: Our sample consisted of the 54 boards that oversaw members of the Association of American Universities. Data were compiled in 10-year increments between 1985 and 2015. Historical data on university boards were created using Standard and Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives and the Capital IQ Personal Intelligence database, both of which provided time-verified data about the affiliations of individual trustees at a given moment in time (e.g., 1985, 1995). We merged these data with information on university characteristics drawn from existing secondary data sources. Findings: Consistent with other analyses, sampled boards were increasingly connected to organizations in other fields over time. Connections grew especially rapidly between 1995 and 2015, with particularly notable growth in ties to the finance industry. In inferential analyses, the total number of ties to external organizations was associated with increases in total publications and with the share of publications in the biological sciences. Board characteristics were not associated with variation in other variables (e.g., endowment growth). Conclusions/recommendations: Our findings suggest that board characteristics are more likely to be associated with some university activities than others. It is less clear why this is the case. Our paper therefore lays important groundwork for future research on the ways in which individual trustees may directly coordinate, indirectly facilitate, or be selected because of their ties to particular external organizations.

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Observable Evidence and Partnership Possibilities for Governing Board Involvement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Content Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

References 60 publications

Governing towards democracy: Challenges and opportunities of trustees at urban community colleges

Governing towards democracy: Challenges and opportunities of trustees at urban community colleges

Analysis of Innovative Talent Cultivation Strategy of Vocational Education under the Strategy of Developing the Country through Science and Education Based on Big Data Investigation

University Board Connectivity, Finances, and Research Production, 1985–2015

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