Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm

by William G. Tierney (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801879203
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	06/08/2004
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

William G. Tierney is University Professor, Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education, and director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis in the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance and Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

Joseph F. Kauffman

An exciting book that covers all the vital topics and various points of view. The chapter authors are outstanding and it should be widely used in courses on governance.

— Joseph F. Kauffman, President Emeritus, Rhode Island College, and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Ken Kempner

Tierney has done an excellent job of creating a forum for a discussion among the impressive array of authors who see higher education governance in differing ways. Each chapter provides important insights toward the discussion and each has a specific contribution that is critical to the dialogue. As a dean, I need this book on my shelf as I negotiate with faculty on one side and the provost and president on the other. I need to assure the faculty that this storm is not an invention of mean administrators, but an economic and social reality that is transforming higher education. This book will help me engage the discussion that we need to consider mutually supportive ways to arrive on the shores safely, if slightly shaken.

Ken Kempner

Tierney has done an excellent job of creating a forum for a discussion among the impressive array of authors who see higher education governance in differing ways. Each chapter provides important insights toward the discussion and each has a specific contribution that is critical to the dialogue. As a dean, I need this book on my shelf as I negotiate with faculty on one side and the provost and president on the other. I need to assure the faculty that this storm is not an invention of mean administrators, but an economic and social reality that is transforming higher education. This book will help me engage the discussion that we need to consider mutually supportive ways to arrive on the shores safely, if slightly shaken.

— Ken Kempner, Dean of Social Sciences and Education, Southern Oregon University

From the Publisher

An exciting book that covers all the vital topics and various points of view. The chapter authors are outstanding and it should be widely used in courses on governance.
—Joseph F. Kauffman, President Emeritus, Rhode Island College, and Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin

Tierney has done an excellent job of creating a forum for a discussion among the impressive array of authors who see higher education governance in differing ways. Each chapter provides important insights toward the discussion and each has a specific contribution that is critical to the dialogue. As a dean, I need this book on my shelf as I negotiate with faculty on one side and the provost and president on the other. I need to assure the faculty that this storm is not an invention of mean administrators, but an economic and social reality that is transforming higher education. This book will help me engage the discussion that we need to consider mutually supportive ways to arrive on the shores safely, if slightly shaken.
—Ken Kempner, Dean of Social Sciences and Education, Southern Oregon University

Editorial Reviews

The broad perspectives on university governance put forward in this book, relevant to all who are 'negotiating the perfect storm,' make it worthwhile reading.
—Harry deBoer, Review of Higher Education

This book arrives at an important moment in the evolution of university governance . . . The research and scholarship in this volume provide a detailed depiction of the challenges faced by governing boards and postsecondary leaders.
—Brian Pusser, Journal of Higher Education

From the Publisher

The broad perspectives on university governance put forward in this book, relevant to all who are 'negotiating the perfect storm,' make it worthwhile reading.

Review of Higher Education - Harry deBoer

This book arrives at an important moment in the evolution of university governance... The research and scholarship in this volume provide a detailed depiction of the challenges faced by governing boards and postsecondary leaders.

Journal of Higher Education - Brian Pusser

This book arrives at an important moment in the evolution of university governance... The research and scholarship in this volume provide a detailed depiction of the challenges faced by governing boards and postsecondary leaders.

— Brian Pusser

Journal of Higher Education

The broad perspectives on university governance put forward in this book, relevant to all who are 'negotiating the perfect storm,' make it worthwhile reading.

— Harry deBoer

Review of Higher Education