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Do you have a written policy or specific language clarifying the role of your advisory board and committee volunteers vis-à-vis the director’s role?

Posted on January 25th, 2011 by Anne Cardale, OLLI National Resource Center OLLI National Resource Center

Karel L. Dutton, OLLI at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Asks OLLI:

Do you have a written policy or specific language clarifying the role of your advisory board and committee volunteers vis-à-vis the director’s role? I am looking for language that clarifies that the institute director has the final say regarding financial and programmatic decisions.

Please send any relevant documents that might be helpful to Kyle Allen (kallen@usm.maine.edu). Kyle will forward them to Karel and arrange for them to be uploaded to the national website.

Posted in Management

3 Responses to “Do you have a written policy or specific language clarifying the role of your advisory board and committee volunteers vis-à-vis the director’s role?”

  1. #1 by: Kathleen Dorn
    January 26th, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    We are working on all of the information mentioned above. We have pulled information from all of the other OLLI websites that had it posted on line. We are now sorting through the information to use what we see as relevant.

  2. #2 by: Cathy House
    University of Utah
    January 26th, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    We do. I will send them to Kyle.

  3. #3 by: Sharon Sokoloff
    http://www.brandeis.edu/bolli
    February 16th, 2011 at 4:26 pm

    This is one passage out of our guidelines that make the point you are asking about. I think I sent the entire Guidelines to Kyles.

    ARTICLE VIII: THE DIRECTOR

    The Director is a member of the Rabb School staff, appointed and employed by Brandeis University and responsible to it. The Director is responsible and accountable for the overall management of BOLLI including programmatic, financial, and managerial matters and of assuring that Council decisions and policies conform to University policies. The Director also serves as a liaison to the Rabb School and the University. The Director or the Director’s designee shall be a voting member of the Nominating Committee and a non-voting member of the Council and all other committees and task forces.

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