Advice from the front.WHEN THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. CONVENES TO make decisions that affect an entire institution, it would seem only fair that all constituents should have some input in the decision-making process. That's the way the board of trustees at Hampshire College Hampshire College, at Amherst, Mass.; coeducational; opened 1970. The emphasis of the academic program is on the individual needs of the students. Hampshire participates in a cooperative arrangement with Amherst, Smith, and Mount Holyoke colleges and the Univ. (Mass.) sees things, as underscored by the news that it will be adding an elected, full-voting trustee from among the college's staff. The staff trustee will be chosen by a Staff Advisory Committee and join the Board in July. Until then, a non-voting staff observer will attend board meetings in February and May. Hampshire President Ralph Hexter Ralph J. Hexter is the current president of Hampshire College, a progressive alternative college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Prior to assuming the post, Hexter was Executive Dean of Letters and Science and Dean of Arts and Humanities and at University of California, Berkeley. said he was honored to be leading an institution that would take the important step to ensure the perspective of the staff on the board. Hampshire, a member of the Five College consortium that includes Amherst, Mount Holyoke Mount Holyoke (elevation 940'/286m) is the western-most peak of the Mount Holyoke Range located in the Connecticut River Valley of western Massachusetts and is the namesake of nearby Mount Holyoke College. Origin of name The mountain was named after Elizur Holyoke. , Smith, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst US News and World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges ranked UMass Amherst as one of the top 100 universities in the nation, placing it at #96, and ranking it the joint 46th amongst Public Universities. , has long had an elected student trustee and an elected faculty trustee, but the elected staff trustee position is still a rarity. Cornell is the only other institution with a governance board that includes fully voting employee members, according to Kristin MacHenry, assistant secretary of Cornell's board.--T.G. |
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