CIC is launching a new series of President-Trustee Dialogues that will begin this spring with the support and cooperation of the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI). Ann Die Hasselmo, former president of Hendrix College and now president of AALI, will manage the program. A series of President-Trustee Dialogues had been piloted in 2003 with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.

The Dialogues seek to encourage critical conversations among presidents and trustee leaders and are organized as regional meetings that bring together small groups of about six or seven presidents and one or two trustee leaders from each institution. During the day-long meeting, participants will examine such topics as board governance, president-board relations, institutional strategy, trustees’ responsibilities, the board’s role in planning, “best practices” for board meetings, the emerging role of the “committee on trustees,” and the components necessary for developing a strategic board.

The 2008 Dialogues will be hosted by S. Georgia Nugent, president of Kenyon College (OH) on May 28; Louis Agnese, president of University of the Incarnate Word (TX) on June 4; Todd Hutton, president of Utica College (NY) on September 10; and William Troutt, president of Rhodes College (TN) on September 23. More information about the Dialogues is available here on CIC's website.