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Governance Reconsidered


Governance Reconsidered

How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive
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von: Susan R. Pierce, Stephen Trachtenberg

36,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 07.04.2014
ISBN/EAN: 9781118738627
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 256

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<b>Revamp senior administration organization for more effective governance</b> <p><i>Governance Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can Help Their Colleges Thrive</i> takes an in-depth look at the current practice of governance in higher education and explores solutions for more effective functioning. Written by a former college president, the book provides an insider's perspective on the growing tensions around the traditional shared governance model and identifies the key challenges facing trustees, presidents, senior administrators, and faculty.</p> <p>Traditional shared governance operations are typically time-consuming, process-laden, and slow to respond to the internal and external forces acting upon modern educational institutions. Higher education is facing increasing political and economic pressure, and senior administration frequently needs the flexibility to make institutional decisions quickly. Using recent public scandals as examples, <i>Governance Reconsidered</i> illustrates how the tension between the need for timely decisions and action versus the importance of mission and academic quality is creating a dramatic systemic problem. The book provides practical advice on the issues at the heart of the matter, including:</p> <ul> <li>The nature and pace of change on campus, including the pressures facing higher education</li> <li>Clarity about the roles and responsibilities of trustees, the president, and the faculty</li> <li>The campus community's role in decision-making activities</li> <li>How thriving universities can govern collaboratively</li> </ul> <p>The book also addresses the brand new challenges that affect higher education governance, including MOOCs, online learning, and rising questions about value and cost. Campus leaders must work together effectively to boost higher education, and <i>Governance Reconsidered</i> contains the questions and answers integral to implementing effective governance.</p>
<p>Foreword ix</p> <p>Preface xiii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xxi</p> <p>About the Author xxv</p> <p><b>1. Shared Governance: Its History and Its Challenges 1</b></p> <p>The Pressures on Shared Governance 3</p> <p>Differences in How Shared Governance Has Been Practiced 6</p> <p>The History of Shared Governance 7</p> <p>Differences over the Nature and Pace of Change 13</p> <p>Pressures on Trustees, Presidents, and Faculty to Change 23</p> <p><b>2. The Impact of Financial Pressures on Governance 25</b></p> <p>The Causes of Financial Pressures 26</p> <p>Efforts to Control Tuition and Limit Growing Financial Aid 33</p> <p>The Dangers of Business as Usual in Times of Budget Problems 37</p> <p>A Successful, Proactive Approach to Financial Pressures 42</p> <p><b>3. The Impact on Governance of Contingent</b></p> <p>Faculty, Online Learning, and MOOCs 45</p> <p>Reliance on Contingent Faculty Affects Governance 46</p> <p>Online Courses and MOOCs 58</p> <p><b>4. The Impact on Governance of Questions About Higher Education’s Value and Cost 69</b></p> <p>Higher Education Is Vulnerable to Criticism 70</p> <p>Claims That Colleges Are Failing to Educate Students 75</p> <p>Elected Officials Seek to Influence Higher Education 78</p> <p>Trustees Are Assuming More Activist Roles 87</p> <p><b>5. Cautionary Tales: Protests of Presidential Actions and Lessons for Shared Governance 89</b></p> <p>Chief Financial Officers Seek Academic Cost Reductions 90</p> <p>Recommendations for Presidents 109</p> <p><b>6. Cautionary Tales: Faculty Failures and Recommendations for Collaboration 123</b></p> <p>Case Studies: Faculties That Resist Administrative Decisions 125</p> <p>Recommendations for Faculty Members 141</p> <p><b>7. Cautionary Tales: Boards That Fail to Fulfill Their Fiduciary Responsibilities and Recommendations for Changes 153</b></p> <p>Examples of Boards Failing to Provide Oversight 154</p> <p>Lessons Learned 167</p> <p>Recommendations for Boards 167</p> <p>The Complexity of Terminating a President 169</p> <p>Recommendations for Boards That Are Confronted with Concerns About Presidential Performance 170</p> <p><b>8. Exemplary Tales: Successful Presidents 185</b></p> <p>The University of Maryland, Baltimore County 188</p> <p>Kettering University 191</p> <p>American International College 194</p> <p>Pitzer College 197</p> <p>Commonalities 199</p> <p>Resources 201</p> <p>References 203</p> <p>Index 215</p>
<p><B>SUSAN RESNECK PIERCE</B> is president emerita of the University of Puget Sound. As president of SRP Consulting, she advises colleges and universities on planning, effective board and presidential performance, board development, governance, and fundraising. She is the author of <i>On Being Presidential: A Guide for College and University Leaders</i> (Jossey-Bass, 2012).</p>
<p>As pressures mount in the academic world, more and more presidents and trustees are ignoring the traditional processes of shared governance by making decisions about academic matters that previously had been considered the primary responsibility of the faculty. In <i>Governance Reconsidered,</i> Susan Resneck Pierce examines the reasons for this trend, and how it has impacted American colleges and universities. </p> <p>Throughout her decades-long career as a faculty member, dean, academic vice president, president, and consultant, Susan Pierce has believed that colleges and universities are most successful when all constituencies (including trustees, the administration, faculty and staff members, students, and as appropriate alumni and the larger community) work collaboratively. But the landscape of higher education has changed in recent years, fraying the conventional notions and practices of shared governance. Confronted with unprecedented financial challenges, many boards now charge their presidents with responding rapidly to these challenges without extended and sometimes any consultation with the faculty. <p>To help institutions resolve this tension between the need for timely action and deference to the faculty’s role in academic matters, <i>Governance Reconsidered </i>addresses these key topics: <ul><li>How the notions of shared governance have evolved over the last century</li><li>The nature of the pressures facing higher education</li><li>Clarity about the roles and responsibilities of trustees, the president, and the faculty</li><li>How trustees, presidents, and the faculty can work together in new ways to respond quickly to external challenges and at the same time preserve the integrity of the academic programs</li><li>How thriving universities govern collaboratively </li></ul> <p><i>Governance Reconsidered </i>also focuses on the impact on shared governance of the growing number of contingent faculty, online education, and increasing questions about the value of higher education. These matters have a profound effect on how institutions are run and on the actions of those who run them. <p>College presidents, trustees, faculty, senior administrators, and student representatives need to think in new ways about higher education governance, as well as how to apply those principles to build a prosperous institution. Readers of this book will learn from both cautionary tales and success stories from the world of higher education. These case studies demonstrate how Susan Pierce’s inspirational view of shared governance can work in practice. <i>Governance Reconsidered</i> explains how to meet the challenges of today’s higher education environment by enacting transformative change while simultaneously engaging faculties, boards, and communities.

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