PPI’s Dr. Oran Smith Named to Institute for Effective Governance

The American Council of Trustees & Alumni announced in October that Dr. Oran Smith, Senior Fellow at Palmetto Promise Institute, has been selected to serve on its Institute for Effective Governance® Advisory Council. Dr. Smith is being recognized for his decades of commitment to improving higher education.

Currently, Dr. Smith serves as the Vice-Chair of the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education and is the longest-serving Trustee at Coastal Carolina University (elected by the General Assembly in 1993). He has been screened and confirmed by the South Carolina General Assembly nine times during his tenure as a Trustee and a Commissioner.

In this new role, Dr. Smith will provide the Institute with advice on what is happening on the ground within universities.

The Institute for Effective Governance works with college and university trustees to help them be more effective overseers of their institutions. IEC is a part of a larger organization, known as the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). ACTA is a nonprofit that works with academic leaders to promote academic excellence, academic freedom, and higher education accountability.