“That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.” FirstsChildrenProblemSchoolUnderstandingResponsibilityPovertyKeysMembersExtraordinaryCriticalBoardsMealsLatchesSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Richard Lugar
“We had a very good number of mayors participate this year. All the mayors rode out with regular volunteers as well as members of our advisory council and our board members.” YearsWellsNumbersMembersVery GoodBoardsVolunteerParticipationCouncilMayorsAdvisoryBoard Members Author:Amy Jackson
“I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.” PeopleLongHas BeensSchoolPoliticalThreeCoursesPresidentCareersIssuesWrittenArmsNeededMembersElectionRapDecadesFavorsRanBoardsOpponentsComplexityRepeatsCandidatesVotersSheetsPropositionsLeversIncorrigibleSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Ellen Goodman
“Every time I open the paper, there's some symphony orchestra collapsing somewhere in the United States. What the hell is going on? And then you find out that the board members try to run these things as businesses.” TryingStatesRunningUnitedUnited StatesHellMembersPaperBoardsOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasBoard Members Author:Brice Marden
“A board member of mine used to say sales fix everything in a startup, and that is really true.” UsedMinesMembersBoardsReally TrueBoard Members Author:Sam Altman
“But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.” KnowsSchoolNamesParentCan DoRealizingDecisionRolesTeacherPromiseMembersOur ChildrenBest ThingsBoardsBest TeacherSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Mark Kennedy
“We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.” NeedsLooksDoneCertainSpaceAmountMembersNormalFemaleProfessionBoardsProfessorsHandfulBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“Facebook is not ideologically neutral. In fact, it emerges from a very particular world view which we can trace back to Hobbes. I discovered this by examining the profile of Zuckerberg's fellow board members who, unlike him, are a very interesting bunch and, I suspect, the real power behind the poster boy.” WorldRealFactsInterestingViewsBehindsBoysParticularMembersFellowsBunchBoardsSuspectsVery InterestingProfilePostersExaminingWorld ViewReal PowerHobbesZuckerbergBoard Members Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.” IfsMatterRunningMembersClubsBoardsFewerNot InterestedWhat MattersBoard Members Author:Ernst Happel
“A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.” ShouldWillingMembersToughBoardsBoard Members Author:Charlie Munger
“We need strong school board members who know right from wrong. The Bible, being the only true source of right and wrong, should be the guide of board members. Only godly Christians can truly qualify for this critically important position.” KnowsNeedsShouldImportantSchoolChristianStrongPositionSourceMembersGuidesBoardsGodlySchool BoardBoard Members Author:Robert Simonds
“As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.” WayShouldCountryMightSchoolViewsParticularMembersHigh SchoolEconomicsIncreaseLocalsBoardsNot SureCurriculumMandatesSchool BoardBoard Members Author:Zephyr Teachout
“I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.” ThinkingMatterHardNextHalfHugeMembersCongressGenderI RealizedFixedBoardsCeoPresidencyDisparityBoard Members Author:Geena Davis
“Many flagship state universities have wonderful digital libraries that are accessed by people around the world. In future, if not current, budget crises, trustees, board members, and administrators may wonder why these state institutions - with an articulated primary clientele of students, faculty, and staff members and a secondary clientele of all citizens of the state - should be spending resources on a digital library that is used by many people beyond the primary and secondary service populations.” PeopleIfsWorldShouldMayStatesUsedWonderWonderfulStudentsCitizensMembersResourcesCrisisInstitutionsLibraryUniversityPopulationCurrentsSpendingAround The WorldPrimariesBudgetsBoardsDigitalFacultyStaffAdministratorsTrusteesBoard MembersStaff Members Author:Tom Peters