Governing Board

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
GB
Pronunciation
/ˈgəvərnɪŋ bɔrd/
Category
Business
Related Field
General

Examples in Context

  1. A governing board elected or appointed to direct the policies of an educational institution.
  2. The governing board of Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania, dismissed eighty-four-year-old Joe Paterno.
  3. But as well as being an economist and former guerrilla fighter, Mr Rousseff also chaired the Petrobras governing board just as technicians were drafting the legislation that granted the company a virtual monopoly over the new discovery.
  4. We invited Mrs. Joanne Canyon-Heller, President of the National Association of Graduate Admissions Professionals Governing Board(GB) as our keynote speaker.
  5. Last month we reported that the OpenSolaris Governing Board(GB) may kill itself if Oracle would not appoint a liaison to the OpenSolaris community to interact with and communicate their future plans.

Other meanings of GB