Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education

by Locke, William; Cummings, William F.; Fisher, Donald

• ISBN13: 9789400711396
• ISBN10: 9400711395
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-14
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. This book analyzes recent changes in institutional governance and management in higher education and their impact on the academy and academic work. It draws on findings from an international study based on a survey of academics in eighteen countries. It opens with a chapter outlining the key issues, drivers and challenges that inform contemporary discourse around academic work and the profession in general. It then focuses on national case studies, comparing changes in the top tier with the lower tiers of national systems, public and private institutions, and other differentiating factors appropriate in each country, which include mature and emerging higher education systems. It concludes by proposing a series of generalizations about the contemporary status of governance and management of institutions of higher education.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Emergent Higher Education Systems
Argentina: Changes in Academics' Involvement in the Governance and Management of Public Universities	p. 19
Brazil: Diverse Experiences in Institutional Governance in the Public and Private Sectors	p. 35
México: A Portrait of a Managed Profession
Malaysia: Perspectives of University Governance and Management within the Academic Profession	p. 83
South Africa: Recklessly Incapacitated by a Fifth Column - The Academic Profession Facing Institutional Governance	p. 107
Mature Higher Education Systems
Australia: The Changing Academic Profession - An enCAPsulation	p. 129
Canada: Perspectives on Governance and Management	p. 151
The United Kingdom: Academic Retreat or Professional Renewal?	p. 175
The United States of America: Perspectives on Faculty Governance, 1992-2007	p. 199
Germany: How Changing Governance and Management Affects the Views and Work of the Academic Profession	p. 223
Finland: CAPtive Academics - An Examination of the Binary Divide	p. 243
Norway: Between Humboldtian Values and Strategic Management	p. 263
Japan: Effects of Changing Governance and Management on the Academic Profession	p. 281
South Korea: Decentralized Centralization - Fading Shared Governance and Rising Managerialism	p. 321
Hong Kong: Governance and the Double-Edged Academy	p. 343
Comparative Perspectives: Emerging Findings and Further Investigations	p. 369
The International Study of the Changing Academic Profession: A Unique Source for Examining the Academy's Perception of Governance and Management in Comparative Perspective	p. 381
Index	p. 385
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