Board of Trustees

Policy Consolidation Project

Detailed history of the project

Overview:

During 1995-97, the ACC Board of Trustees:

1. replaced 300+ pages of implementation-oriented policy with 14 short policies by extracting the strategic elements from 136 old policies and transferring the rest of their content to administrative rules under Presidential authority;
2. added 16 new policies, mostly to establish ACC's version of the "policy governance" mode of Board operation; and
3. retained 16 of the original policies, which were already at an appropriate strategic level but which are now much more visible in this concise policy set.

While these policies are now concise (average length is about 210 words), this three-part process has left some overlap and differences in style. Some policies also retain, even in their compressed form, more detail than may be required when the Board agrees on appropriate general statements of strategic principle on the topic. Discussion of such issues and possible revision of these policies will be part of the on-going policy development process.