Sometimes the generosity of veteran trustees will exceed expectations.
These authors point out that while trust has often been considered narrowly in terms of its impact on the truster in helping them manage uncertainty and vulnerability, it also necessarily places a moral obligation on the trustee in the light of the truster's positive expectations, thus binding the trustee to expected patterns of behaviour [ 22].
An authority trustee, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that at the time of the trustees' vote, there had been an expectation that the $20 million would be used to reduce the county deficit, and not for energy conservation programs.
The board of trustees, which met this week with the expectation of resolving the policy on undergraduate tuition, instead released a statement on Thursday saying only that it "will continue to review all options to address our financial challenges".
Like many smaller organizations Dance Theater Workshop has a board that is a mix of patrons and artists, and there have not been consistent expectations about how much each trustee should contribute annually.
At the same time, some arts managers caution that having a major celebrity as a trustee can be a double-edged sword, particularly if expectations aren't spelled out and mutually agreed upon beforehand.
Our findings support the points made by Brown and Calnan who describe how trust is achieved by placing moral and emotional obligations on the trustee in the light of the truster's positive expectations.
"Dr. Jackson has more than surpassed the expectations of the board," Arthur Gajarsa, the chairman of the board of trustees, said in the statement.
"The expectations have changed," said Ford Bell, president of the American Association of Museums and a former trustee of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minneapolis, adding: "People don't expect the museum visit to be passive.
"Nancy Spector is the preeminent curator of contemporary art who has come to be known for her expectation-shattering installations," Jennifer Stockman, who was elected to the Gugg board of trustees presidency in 2005, said in a statement today.
