Restructuring shared governance in higher education
By: William G. Tierney, Vicente M. Lechuga, editors.
Contributors: Tierney, William G.; Lechuga, Vicente M.
Series: New directions for higher education -- no. 127; Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration; School management and organization -- United States; Education, Higher
Description: Shared governance has been a hallmark of higher education in the United States since the early twentieth century. Since its inception, faculty, administrators, trustees, and other interested parties have either bemoaned or celebrated the idea. We offer a variety of viewpoints that bring to light various ways to think of shared governance. The intent is to foment dialogue and debate about the shape of shared governance for the future. Our assumption is that many challenges are at academe's doorstep that may require significant changes. If those of us who work in colleges and university are not well organized to deal with those challenges, the solutions that we develop will be love's labors lost. Governance is the means to implementing ideas that either respond to problems or provide new strategies. If academic governance is ineffective, then it needs to be reformed. The shape of those reforms is what the authors of this volume consider.
Notes: "Fall 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The end of shared governance: looking ahead or looking back -- Robert Birnbaum; title: Do governance structures matter? -- Gabriel E. Kaplan; title: What is more important to effective governance: relationships, trust, and leadership, or structures and formal processes? -- Adrianna Kezar; title: The state and higher education: an essential partnership -- Paul E. Lingenfelter; title: Disjointed governance in university centers and institutes -- William Mallon; title: A conceptual framework of faculty trust and participation in governance -- Myron L. Pope; title: A cultural perspective on communication and governance -- William G. Tierney, James T. Minor; title: Exploring current issues on shared governance-- Vicente M. Lechuga.