University of Virginia Firing Offers an Important Lesson for Boards - Against the Grain - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Last month, after a dramatic and unusually public example of board governance gone awry, the University of Virginia’s board reversed itself and reinstated the institution’s president less than two weeks after accepting her forced resignation.
For board members of all types of nonprofits, this episode should serve as a cautionary tale about what can go wrong when a board and its leaders are not clear about their roles. Trouble often erupts when people forget that boards govern, board members do not.
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