From Guardians to Agents: The Changing Role of Trustees.

Jones, W. T.

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Publication Date: 1985

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From Guardians to Agents: The Changing Role of Trustees.

Jones, W. T.

Educational Record, v66 n2 p10-15 Spr 1985

The acrimonious disagreement over investment in South Africa is one sign of the collapse of the consensus on the role of a trustee. Some critics hold that trustees are not definers of the institution's good but merely the instruments by which the public's view of that good is carried out. (MLW)

Descriptors: Alumni, Change, College Administration, Decision Making, Democracy, Educational Finance, Governance, Governing Boards, Higher Education, Investment, Power Structure, Public Opinion, Role Perception, Social Attitudes, Trustees

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