Board Governance Policies

Approved/revised: October 10, 1995

   A.2.5.3 Board Job Description

The job of the Board is to represent the ownership of NVIT in determining and demanding appropriate organizational performance. The Board will concentrate its efforts on the following:

    1. The link between the College and its public.

    2. Written governing policies which, at the broadest levels, address:

E.  Ends: Benefits and outcomes of the College, for whom, and their relative worth (what good for which people at what cost).

B.  Board-President Relationship: The determination of the President's role, the delegation of the President's authority and responsibility, and the monitoring of its proper use.

X.  Executive Limitations: Constraints on the President's authority which establish the prudence and ethics boundaries within which all executive activity and decisions must take place.

G.  Governance Process: Specifications of how the Board conceives, carries out and monitors its own task.

    3. The assurance of the President's performance against Policies in E and X.

    4. Lobbying Government