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New members of such governing boards shall participate, at least once during their first two years of membership, in the programs, which shall be designed to address the role, duties, and responsibilities of the governing boards and may include in-service programs on current issues in higher education. In developing such programs, the Council may consider similar educational programs for institutional governing boards in other states. In addition, the Council shall develop educational materials for board members with more than two years of service on the governing board. Each such board member shall participate in further training on board governance at least once every two years, and the Council shall develop criteria by which such board members shall demonstrate compliance with this requirement.B\n\nEducational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of higher education shall include presentations relating to:1\n\nBoard members’ primary duty to the citizens of the Commonwealth;2\n\nGoverning board committee structure and function;3\n\nThe duties of the executive committee set forth in § 23.1-1306;4\n\nProfessional accounting and reporting standards;5\n\nMethods for meeting the statutory, regulatory, and fiduciary obligations of the board;6\n\nThe requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700 et seq.), developed and delivered in conjunction with the Freedom of Information Advisory Council;7\n\nInstitutional ethics and conflicts of interest;8\n\nCreating and implementing regulations and institution policies;9\n\nBusiness operations, administration, budgeting, financing, financial reporting, and financial reserves, including a segment on endowment management;10\n\nFixing student tuition, mandatory fees, and other necessary charges, including a review of student debt trends;11\n\nOverseeing planning, construction, maintenance, expansion, and renovation projects that affect the institution’s consolidated infrastructure, physical facilities, and natural environment, including its lands, improvements, and capital equipment;12\n\nWorkforce planning, strategy, and investment;13\n\nInstitutional advancement, including philanthropic giving, fundraising initiatives, alumni programming, communications and media, government and public relations, and community affairs;14\n\nStudent welfare issues, including academic studies; curriculum; residence life; student governance and activities; and the general physical and psychological well-being of undergraduate and graduate students;15\n\nCurrent national and state issues in higher education;16\n\nFuture national and state issues in higher education;17\n\nRelations between the governing board and the chief executive officer of the institution, including perspectives from chief executive officers of public institutions of higher education;18\n\nBest practices for board governance, including perspectives from current board members; and19\n\nAny other topics that the Council, public institutions of higher education, and members of their governing boards deem necessary or appropriate.C\n\nThe Council shall submit to the General Assembly and the Governor an annual executive summary of the interim activity and work of the Council pursuant to this section no later than the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly. The executive summary shall be submitted as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of legislative documents and reports and shall be posted on the General Assembly’s website.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":306916,"text":"From such funds as are appropriated for such purpose, the Council shall develop, in consultation with public institutions of higher education and members of their governing boards, and annually deliver educational programs for the governing boards of such institutions. New members of such governing boards shall participate, at least once during their first two years of membership, in the programs, which shall be designed to address the role, duties, and responsibilities of the governing boards and may include in-service programs on current issues in higher education. In developing such programs, the Council may consider similar educational programs for institutional governing boards in other states. 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This law was first created in 1996. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 868<\/a> and 992<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 5 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 2013, chapter 577<\/a>; in 2014, chapter 644<\/a>; in 2016, chapter 588<\/a>; in 2019, chapters 642<\/a> and 643<\/a>; in 2020, chapters 155<\/a> and 156<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":82055,"section_number":"23.1-1300","catch_line":"Members of governing boards; removal; terms; nonvoting, advisory representatives; residency","order_by":null,"url":"\/23.1-1300\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":55569,"section_number":"2.2-3700","catch_line":"Short title; policy","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-3700\/"},{"id":75352,"section_number":"23.1-1306","catch_line":"Governing board executive committee; duties","order_by":null,"url":"\/23.1-1306\/"}],"permalink":{"id":185949,"object_type":"law","relational_id":85686,"identifier":"23.1-1304","token":"23.1\/IV\/13\/23.1-1304","url":"\/23.1-1304\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-1304\/","token":"23.1\/IV\/13\/23.1-1304","dublin_core":{"Title":"Governing boards; additional duties; educational programs","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-1304","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> From such funds as are appropriated for such purpose, the Council<\/span> shall develop, in consultation with public institutions of higher education and members of their governing boards<\/span>, and annually deliver educational programs for the governing boards<\/span> of such institutions. New members of such governing boards<\/span> shall participate, at least once during their first two years of membership, in the programs, which shall be designed to address the role, duties, and responsibilities of the governing boards<\/span> and may include in-service programs on current issues<\/span> in higher education. In developing such programs, the Council<\/span> may consider similar educational programs for institutional governing boards<\/span> in other states. In addition, the Council<\/span> shall develop educational materials<\/span> for board members with more than two years of service on the governing board<\/span>. Each such board member shall participate in further training on board governance at least once every two years, and the Council<\/span> shall develop criteria by which such board members shall demonstrate compliance with this requirement. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> Educational programs for the governing boards<\/span> of public institutions of higher education shall include presentations relating to: <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> Board members’ primary duty to the citizens of the Commonwealth; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Governing board<\/span> committee structure and function; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

3.<\/span> The duties of the executive committee set forth in § 23.1-1306<\/a>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

4.<\/span> Professional accounting and reporting standards; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

5.<\/span> Methods for meeting the statutory, regulatory, and fiduciary obligations of the board; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

6.<\/span> The requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§ 2.2-3700<\/a> et seq.), developed and delivered in conjunction with the Freedom of Information Advisory Council<\/span>; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

7.<\/span> Institutional ethics and conflicts of interest; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

8.<\/span> Creating and implementing regulations and institution policies; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

9.<\/span> Business operations, administration, budgeting, financing, financial reporting, and financial reserves, including a segment on endowment management; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

10.<\/span> Fixing student tuition, mandatory fees, and other necessary charges, including a review of student debt trends; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

11.<\/span> Overseeing planning, construction, maintenance, expansion, and renovation projects that affect the institution’s consolidated infrastructure, physical facilities, and natural environment, including its lands, improvements, and capital equipment; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

12.<\/span> Workforce planning, strategy, and investment; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

13.<\/span> Institutional advancement, including philanthropic giving, fundraising initiatives, alumni programming, communications and media, government and public relations, and community affairs; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

14.<\/span> Student welfare issues<\/span>, including academic studies; curriculum; residence life; student governance and activities; and the general physical and psychological well-being of undergraduate and graduate students; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

15.<\/span> Current national and state issues<\/span> in higher education; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

16.<\/span> Future national and state issues<\/span> in higher education; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

17.<\/span> Relations between the governing board<\/span> and the chief executive officer<\/span> of the institution, including perspectives from chief executive officers<\/span> of public institutions of higher education; <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

18.<\/span> Best practices for board governance, including perspectives from current board members; and <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

19.<\/span> Any other topics that the Council<\/span>, public institutions of higher education, and members of their governing boards<\/span> deem necessary or appropriate. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

C.<\/span> The Council<\/span> shall submit to the General Assembly and the Governor an annual executive summary of the interim activity and work of the Council<\/span> pursuant to this section no later than the first day of each regular session of the General Assembly. The executive summary shall be submitted as provided in the procedures of the Division of Legislative Automated Systems<\/span> for the processing of legislative documents and reports and shall be posted on the General Assembly’s website. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nGOVERNING BOARDS; ADDITIONAL DUTIES; EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS (\u00a7 23.1-1304)\n\nA. From such funds as are appropriated for such purpose, the Council shall\ndevelop, in consultation with public institutions of higher education and\nmembers of their governing boards, and annually deliver educational programs for\nthe governing boards of such institutions. New members of such governing boards\nshall participate, at least once during their first two years of membership, in\nthe programs, which shall be designed to address the role, duties, and\nresponsibilities of the governing boards and may include in-service programs on\ncurrent issues in higher education. In developing such programs, the Council may\nconsider similar educational programs for institutional governing boards in\nother states. In addition, the Council shall develop educational materials for\nboard members with more than two years of service on the governing board. Each\nsuch board member shall participate in further training on board governance at\nleast once every two years, and the Council shall develop criteria by which such\nboard members shall demonstrate compliance with this requirement.\n\nB. Educational programs for the governing boards of public institutions of\nhigher education shall include presentations relating to:\n\n 1. Board members’ primary duty to the citizens of the Commonwealth;\n\n 2. Governing board committee structure and function;\n\n 3. The duties of the executive committee set forth in § 23.1-1306;\n\n 4. Professional accounting and reporting standards;\n\n 5. Methods for meeting the statutory, regulatory, and fiduciary obligations of\n the board;\n\n 6. The requirements of the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (§\n 2.2-3700 et seq.), developed and delivered in conjunction with the Freedom of\n Information Advisory Council;\n\n 7. Institutional ethics and conflicts of interest;\n\n 8. Creating and implementing regulations and institution policies;\n\n 9. Business operations, administration, budgeting, financing, financial\n reporting, and financial reserves, including a segment on endowment\n management;\n\n 10. Fixing student tuition, mandatory fees, and other necessary charges,\n including a review of student debt trends;\n\n 11. Overseeing planning, construction, maintenance, expansion, and renovation\n projects that affect the institution’s consolidated infrastructure,\n physical facilities, and natural environment, including its lands,\n improvements, and capital equipment;\n\n 12. Workforce planning, strategy, and investment;\n\n 13. Institutional advancement, including philanthropic giving, fundraising\n initiatives, alumni programming, communications and media, government and\n public relations, and community affairs;\n\n 14. Student welfare issues, including academic studies; curriculum; residence\n life; student governance and activities; and the general physical and\n psychological well-being of undergraduate and graduate students;\n\n 15. Current national and state issues in higher education;\n\n 16. Future national and state issues in higher education;\n\n 17. Relations between the governing board and the chief executive officer of\n the institution, including perspectives from chief executive officers of\n public institutions of higher education;\n\n 18. Best practices for board governance, including perspectives from current\n board members; and\n\n 19. Any other topics that the Council, public institutions of higher\n education, and members of their governing boards deem necessary or\n appropriate.\n\nC. The Council shall submit to the General Assembly and the Governor an annual\nexecutive summary of the interim activity and work of the Council pursuant to\nthis section no later than the first day of each regular session of the General\nAssembly. The executive summary shall be submitted as provided in the procedures\nof the Division of Legislative Automated Systems for the processing of\nlegislative documents and reports and shall be posted on the General\nAssembly’s website.\n\nHISTORY: 1996, cc. 868, 992, \u00a7 23-9.14:1; 2013, c. 577; 2014, c. 644; 2016, c.\n588; 2019, cc. 642, 643; 2020, cc. 155, 156.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}