AACS Online Training Center: Developing Effective Advisory and Governing Boards
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Vital advisory and governing boards create additional opportunities to enhance school operations. Well-prepared board members engaged in appropriate and timely activities can make a substantial contribution to a school's operational, financial and management success. Creating, managing and maintaining effective advisory and governing boards can be a demanding yet rewarding process.
Board members have to be identified, recruited, and trained to be effective and to understand their role as individual contributors and as members of a group of advisors. To gain maximum leverage from a board, members must also remain motivated and retain a concentrated focus on the school's mission, purposes and goals. OP110 - Developing Effective Advisory and Governing Boards provides a blueprint, with accompanying checklists, for establishing and maintaining effective advisory and governing boards in a career school setting.
