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Competing Conceptions of Academic Governance: Negotiating the Perfect Storm » (1st Edition)

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Authors: William G. Tierney
ISBN-13: 9780801879203, ISBN-10: 0801879205
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: William G. Tierney

William G. Tierney is the Wilbur-Kieffer Professor of Higher Education and director of the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis at the University of Southern California. He is the editor of The Responsive University: Restructuring for High Performance, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Book Synopsis

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.

	Preface : why governance? : why now?
	Introduction : a perfect storm : turbulence in higher education
1	Going global : governance implications of cross-border traffic in higher education	1
2	The paradox of scope : a challenge to the governance of higher education	33
3	Faculty involvement in system-wide governance	77
4	The ambiguous future of public higher education systems	104
5	Governing the twenty-first-century university : a view from the bridge	137
6	A growing quaintness : traditional governance in the markedly new realm of U.S. higher education	158
7	University governance and academic freedom	177
8	Improving academic governance : utilizing a cultural framework to improve organizational performance	202
	List of contributors	217
	Index	219