School board trustees play an important role in the education of children throughout Ontario. Using online survey Ontario residents, expectations school are explored detail. The included open-ended question that asked respondents what they see being performed by trustees, as well a whether preferred “delegate” governing model, which believes should represent constituents, or “trustee” render de...

Background In 2004, the health system in Iran initiated an organizational reform aiming to increase the autonomy of teaching hospitals and make them more decentralized. The policy led to the formation of a board of trustees in each hospital and significant modifications in hospitals’ financing. Since the reform aimed to improve its predecessor policy (implementation of hospital autonomy began i...

BACKGROUND Reforming the structure and improving care and service system, particularly at hospitals, are the main priorities of the health system. The board of trustees of the hospitals is the main proposed strategy in this field. Hospitals with board of trustees were created with the aim of improving accountability to the community and guaranteeing efficient management and attracting public su...

Background and Objectives: Evidence shows that transfer of hospital governance to board of trustees can positively influence hospital performance. Iran has initiated implementing such a transformation and a number of hospitals have been involved in this reform. This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of such a reform by examining performance profile of a sample hospital across the interve...

Last night’s Student Life Council meeting resulted in a direct confrontation between students and the faculty-administration members o f the council over the issue of the Board of Trustees’ response to the SLC report on Hall Life. The split began with a motion by Student Body President Dave Krashna to reject the Trustees report, and by the meeting’s close had come close to being reduced to a ch...