The Newsletter for Chairs of Theological School Boards
Vol. 3 No. 10

Why the board chair-president partnership matters

We launched this newsletter three years ago to offer board chairs insights tailored to their roles – resources, ideas, and conversation starters to share with board colleagues.

What we’ve found is that many board chairs have shared the emails with the president or dean of their school, which is a great sign of collaboration.

Starting with this issue, we’ve included both board chairs and executive leaders. Our goal is to foster deeper collaboration by creating a shared space for dialogue and insight. Let us know if your board chair or executive leader isn’t on this list, and we’ll add them. You can send an update for the list here.

Typically, we add links to articles, podcasts, and resources about specific issues to the work of boards and issues facing the field. Today, here’s something to start the conversation: a guide for the relationship between a president and board chair. This relationship is not only valuable to the work of the school at the leadership level, it’s critical to your mission. As this relationship goes, so goes the institution.

This link provides one of the core essentials we talk about in our Wise Stewards Initiative – the partnership between board chair and president. There’s also a report about non-profit board chairs that you may find helpful. I invite you to take a look and have a conversation about how the relationship at your institution helps the mission. If you have questions or topics you’d like us to cover in future emails, please reach out to our team here. We’d love to hear from you.

Thanks for all you do in theological education.

Amy Kardash
President