Retired as Director of Trustee Education for ACCT in 2021, Dr. Norma Goldstein now consults for ACCT as a governance institute and/or board retreat facilitator. Her experiences include several statewide, regional and national board governance institutes for ACCT and for the American Indian Higher Ed Consortium (AIHEC). She facilitates retreats, presidential evaluations, and board self-assessments.  A former college administrator, teacher, scholar, editor, and instructional dean at several colleges, Norma has been a regional accreditation evaluator for two decades for the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. At ACCT, she edited Trustee Talk, the Diversity Equity & Inclusion Implementation Guide and Board Buzzwords, among other publications. With over 40 years of teaching and administrative experience,  Dr. Goldstein actively engages trustees in their learning. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Connecticut College, a Sixth Year Certificate of Advanced Studies degree from Wesleyan University, and her doctorate from the University of Rhode Island. She has additional post graduate work at Dartmouth College and with the Humanities Institute at Cambridge University, England.  She has also taught at Harbin University in China.