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University at Buffalo Foundation turns down shared governance proposal

Inside Higher Ed: An unusual proposal to address concerns about transparency and oversight at the University at Buffalo Foundation had the mark of a good compromise -- it would have left no one happy.

But the proposal, which called for adding a faculty member, a professional staff member and a student to the foundation’s board, won’t go into effect after the foundation turned it down recently. That leaves critics unsurprised. It also leaves the foundation, a private nonprofit organization with more than $1 billion in assets and a mission to support a public institution -- the State University of New York’s University at Buffalo -- as the likely target of continued calls for increased scrutiny.

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