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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"governing board"”.
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Sharing Leadership in Top Teams: A Qualitative Case Study of One Governing Board in the Nonprofit Sector
… and Conger, 2003) and an ‘ethical form of board leadership’ for corporate boards following poor governance and various scandals (Vandewaerde et al, 2011, p.404) to explore sharing leadership and governance in one nonprofit board in practice. Three data collection techniques namely …
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An Examination of the Perceived College Leadership, Governance, and Decision Making from Governing Board Members at Selected Midwest Tribal Colleges
… was available on the effectiveness of TCU governing boards. The purpose of this study was to examine leadership skills of TCU governing boards and to attribute those skills to governance effectiveness. The Holland and Blackmon Board Self Assessment Questionnaire (BSAQ) instrument was used …
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An Analysis of Selected California Community College Chief Executive Officers' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of District Governing Board Evaluation Policies and Practices
… college chief executive officers perceived their governing boards' evaluation policies and practices to be effective, and whether those evaluations contributed to their improved performance. Methodology. An ethnographic research design and interviewing methodologies were used for this study. The …
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Investigating corporate governance practices and their impact on organisational performance in non-governmental organisations: An empirical study of the Namibia Red Cross Society
… Society. The study assessed the role of the Governing Board in ensuring proper internal control systems, assess the performance management tools used by the Board to enforce accountability and transparency in reporting and internal management controls and assess the performance indicators …
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Superintendents and Fiscally Dependent School District Budget Approval
… dependent school districts where the school board does not have the authority to tax and must obtain funding from the local governing board. In fiscally dependent school districts, superintendents must develop and guide the school district budget through two different boards with different …
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The Leadership of a Superintendent: Putting the California School Reform Movement to Work
… which include school site administrators, governing board members, and teachers' association members. The study includes observations on how crisis and conflict came into play, as well as the presence or absence of moral and ethical considerations. The development of policies addressing …
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MiraCosta College: The First Fifty Years
… MiraCosta College is governed by a seven-member Governing Board, each person elected at large but representing one of the seven trustee areas in which he or she resides. Among the major marker events in the college's history were the vote by the electorate in 1934 which officially established the …
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Participation of community groups in formation and interim operation of unified school districts in California
… a successful election when the newly chosen governing board is preparing for the actual operation of the district, which occurs on the first succeeding or second succeeding July 1, depending upon the date of the election.<sup>4</sup></p><p>The first purpose of this research was to discover …
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A prophet unwelcome : motive magazine, the Methodist Student Movement, and midcentury Methodism.
… to the censure of an oppressive denominational governing board. This thesis, however, will argue that identity politics, organizational instability, and financial troubles were largely responsible for the magazine's demise. This work will contend that by jettisoning faith as its distinguishing …
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A grounded theory approach : inter-organizational relationships in community college fundraising
… unique environment typifies IORs as the college governing board relationship works with the foundation fundraising board relationship in interdependent ways to advance organizational goals. My study presents the Theory of Fundraising Relationship Management (TFRM) as a framework for understanding …
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Dual-executive structures in religious non-profit organizations
… of whom answer directly to the organization’s governing board. Although dual-executive structures are known to exist, no one has so far attempted to determine the extent of their existence or the implications of their use for organization life and dynamics in the religious sub-sector. This …
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Language policy implementers: Faculty perspectives on language policy at a Southeastern U.S. University
… jure language policies at the national, state, governing board, and institutional level as well as examine de facto language policies within higher education classrooms and investigate faculty members? beliefs regarding the role of language as it related primarily to non-native English speaking …
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Restructuring public higher education governance in West Virginia, 1969-1989: a policy study
The West Virginia Board of Regents, age 20, statewide governing board for higher education, died June 30, 1989 as a result of legislative termination. Like so many of its progenitors, the Board, an abstraction without constituencies or political proponents, was quietly written out of the State …
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A Study of School-Linked Services in Selected Project Success Pilot Sites in Illinois
… projects, and notes from meetings of the Local Governing Board. A questionnaire that consisted of seven questions was used to collect data for this study. Materials gathered during in-depth interviews were transcribed and analyzed after the interviews were completed. First, the researcher read …
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Nontraditional University President: From Candidate To President
… competencies called for in the AASCU model. The governing board also broke with the norms by meeting with a potential candidate before he had gone through the search committee process. The search process was rooted in the culture of the university, which led to a negative reaction to the …
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EXAMINING HOW TENNESSEE STATE MERIT AID INFLUENCES INSTITUTIONAL GRANT AID: A DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES APPROACH
… group of institutions subject to a state governing or coordinating board with budget authority, which produce more efficient estimates. Future research on financial aid or institutional finances may benefit from moving beyond the tradition governing board classification to include state …
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A Comparative Study of Leadership Characteristics of Virginia Regional Technical Center Principals
… superintendents, and the center's Joint Control Board of the regional technical centers of the Commonwealth of Virginia. A regional technical center principal position deals with a different administrative governing board, students from different high schools, and courses in the field of career …
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Nonprofit Board Effectiveness, Funding Source,and Financial Vulnerability
Nonprofit organizations rely heavily on their governing board of directors to provide leadership, strategic guidance, and financial oversight. The nonprofit community continues to grow, and the services provided by these organizations have become a critical part of our society, providing a wide …
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Limited leadership: an examination of Houston nonprofit board diversity and whether selection processes and executive director perceptions of governance models affect composition
Nonprofit governing board diversity recently gained attention from scholars, and the changing demographics of the United States' population create urgency around understanding how to diversify nonprofit boards. This study examined nonprofit board diversity in the largest majority-minority city in …
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