Education Policy and Leadership’s Assistant Professor Sondra Barringer assesses how trustees may influence different aspects of higher education institutions.
According to Barringer, there are few studies on the roles of trustees. “Despite the importance of trustees for higher education institutions, we still know very little about what they do. In this article we show trustees at elite institutions interacted with their universities in a variety of ways,” she says. “Some of these trustees significantly influence the behaviors, structures, and policies of the institutions they steward.”
She and co-author, Karly Riffe, published the research in Innovative Higher Education.