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Utilizing five recent highly-visible case studies of campus tensions between boards of trustees and trustee activism, the researcher examined each case, the history of trustees, the shift in trustee activism, what happened and what can be learned from each case, institutional context, the role of the trustee, and several responses. The researcher concludes by providing specific recommendations to effectively minimize trustee activism and tensions in the future and describes how these tensions specifically affect the university enrollment manager.

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Jeffrey P. Levine is associate director of Enrollment Services for Texas A&M University at Galveston, where he supervises undergraduate recruitment, admissions, and admissions processing for the ocean and maritime-oriented campus. He earned a B.A. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.Ed. in higher education administration and supervision from the University of Houston. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in higher education leadership, management and policy at Seton Hall University.

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