Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance
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Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance

Negotiating the Perfect Storm

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eBook - ePub

Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance

Negotiating the Perfect Storm

About this book

Today, institutional leaders face numerous struggles: intervention from boards of trustees, alumni, and state legislators; decline in financial support from the states; and competition in an increasingly global marketplace. While it is agreed that effective governance structures allow institutions to respond creatively to these challenges, how best to allocate control in order to maximize institutional efficiency, preserve academic freedom, and ensure institutional identity remains unclear. Increasingly, administrators look to non-academic institutions for governance and management strategies.

In Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance, William G. Tierney brings together faculty members, administrators, and policy experts to discuss differing views of academic governance at institutional, state, and international levels. Topics include the effects of globalization and the prospect of international accreditation; balancing the entrepreneurial and philosophical goals of higher education; the interaction between state governments and public universities; and the conflicting interests and roles of boards of trustees, administrators, and faculty. Carefully weighing various models and strategies, Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance provides new ways of understanding and addressing the changes that are transforming higher education.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface: Why Governance? Why Now?
  6. Introduction: A Perfect Storm: Turbulence in Higher Education
  7. 1. Going Global: Governance Implications of Cross-Border Traffic in Higher Education
  8. 2. The Paradox of Scope: A Challenge to the Governance of Higher Education
  9. 3. Faculty Involvement in System-wide Governance
  10. 4. The Ambiguous Future of Public Higher Education Systems
  11. 5. Governing the Twenty-first-Century University: A View from the Bridge
  12. 6. A Growing Quaintness: Traditional Governance in the Markedly New Realm of U.S. Higher Education
  13. 7. University Governance and Academic Freedom
  14. 8. Improving Academic Governance: Utilizing a Cultural Framework to Improve Organizational Performance
  15. List of Contributors
  16. Index