Endangered small, private colleges can take steps toward survival, including mission clarification, expanding services to existing and potential clienteles, introducing management by objectives, and developing public relations and fund raising. Long-range options include avoiding the postsecondary mainstream and striving for efficiency of…

AGB's accomplishments of the year are discussed: formulation of Three Year Plan for expansion, membership growth, corporate support, record conference attendance, two significant new publications, products of major research projects, and initiation of a project to assist boards of predominantly Black institutions. (Author/MLW)

Trustees' concerns and strategies will increasingly include: periodic reexamination of college mission, infusion of real purpose into educational policy committees, involvement in personnel matters and conservation of human resources, more aggressive searches for alternative funding, performance and accountability issues, and participation in…