Institutions also have grown much larger - making collegiality and collegial governance more challenging. So much for creating a syllabus So much for teaching a class So much for grading papers, etc. The term faculty and faculty role now embraces a much wider range of definitions and work responsibilities than could have been imagined even 40 years ago. BOVs must not interfere with the administration of the policy. Nor should the president overreach or undermine the policy in carrying out what the board has determined to be appropriate at a given time in the life of an institution.
Board members make it possible by leading out in action policy wise.
College administrators should ensure that their institution is performing at the highest possible level in terms of the quality of instruction and service to students, and the creative contributions through research and public service. This must be done in partnership with the institution's faculty. Administrators are more and more less of the faculty and thus less and less focused on the academic aspects of institutions. The are managing large corporate entities which require them to be more managerial and educational - except in the most symbolic terms and through campus rituals. Historically, the focus of society was on the quality of faculty teaching with institutional prestige defined on input measures - such as where faculty got their degrees, how much they published, how high students' GPA's and SAT's were, etc.