Many people choose to serve on citizen boards, commissions, and nonprofits as a way to share their expertise, gain new skills, and get involved in their local community. An effective organizational ...

At the November 15, 2022, City Council meeting, Council adopted a new Council Committee structure, effective January 2023. Committees were first introduced in 2006 and have remained largely unchanged, ...

A committee is a group of people who take on the responsibility of managing a specific topic for an organization that is too complicated to be handled by the larger group to which they belong. Some ...

How do boards do it? The scope of work for most university, college and state system boards is vast, from audits and athletics to underrepresented students and their completion. (We couldn’t quite get ...

When President George W. Bush proposed the establishment of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 6, he wisely recognized that this move would entail a reassessment of how the federal ...

Since President George W. Bush proposed the establishment of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 6, the congressional debate in the Senate has largely focused not on how the ...

An investment committee is the cornerstone of an institutional investment program. At Global Endowment Management, we have observed that a committee's ability to translate its institutional mission ...

For Purdue West Lafayette Faculty: Primary Committees are chaired by the school, division, or department head/chair, who serves as a non-voting member unless the number of members on the committee is ...

Plan sponsors’ investment committees rely on their advisors to help them do their jobs properly and avoid potential problems. I recently asked Emily Costin, an employee benefits/ERISA expert and ...

With the approval of a revitalized strategic plan in 2024, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors began an exercise in self-reflection. Part of this effort, which has continued in earnest in ...