Trustees/regents

Though charged with institutions' fiscal health, even board members lack information about where the money goes, survey finds. 

Popular chancellor of 64-campus system quits after only two years -- with significant change possibly in offing for the university.

A candidate for West Virginia U.'s top job faces controversy over alleged conflicts of interest.

Appointment of harsh critic to U.S. panel that reviews accreditors seen as part of broader effort to alter federal role in college oversight.

Imagine a book in which the author devotes a section to the "crisis of moral purpose" among colleges, calls for presidents to become their colleges' "chief ethical officers" and to stop focusing so much on fund raising, praises presidents of the past who devoted commencement addresses to institutional failings rather than the "pieties" and "superficial inspiration" that are heard today, and criticizes students who focus on their own advancement as opposed to giving more of themselves to their community.

Sexual harassment charges against university’s board chairman lead to suspensions for him and system’s president.

Two years ago, Harvard University became the first major university to announce a policy of selling off stocks in companies that operate in Sudan in ways that support the genocide taking place in Darfur. The announcement was huge for the nascent movement to push universities to take a stand on Darfur. No university has a larger endowment.

Members of a California community college's Board of Trustees face potential recall election after a string of controversies.

Gordon Gee stuns Vanderbilt -- site of his fifth presidency -- by quitting to return to Ohio State, site of his third and soon-to-be sixth.

At Roger Williams U., 3 board members who criticized chair's use of racial slur are ousted; chair then leaves, too.