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Direct linkBjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Fiona Margetts; Stephen Jonathan Whitty; Brad Taylor – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
University governing bodies, especially academic boards, play a crucial role in policy formation. However, due to the predominance of managerial values over academic values in the policy-making process, a persistent divide exists between policy formulation and implementation. This divide results from the marginalisation of academics and the…
Descriptors: School Policy, Policy Formation, Colleges, Educational Practices
Bhushan, Sudhanshu – Higher Education for the Future, 2023
Rules and rationalities are the bases of analysis in rules determined governance model. Power as the ability to influence decision-making and the influence of power centres are not sufficiently examined in the literature on the governance of higher education. The article locates various centres of power in the functioning of universities and how…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Governance, Universities, Decision Making
Pinyan Lin; Steven J. Courtney; Paul Armstrong; Amanda McKay – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
In China, formal school groupings known as 'education collectives' have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Figurative Language
Download full textAdam Kissel – James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
Getting and keeping accreditation is critical for almost all colleges in the United States. Accreditation is third-party validation that a college meets minimum standards. Not only is institutional accreditation required for participation in federal student loan programs, but without accreditation, it is hard (if not impossible) to be authorized…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Colleges, Geographic Regions, Power Structure
Tessa DeLaquil – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project aimed to understand the relationship between theoretical interpretations of multiple values and ideas of the universities from within and across different disciplines and their influence on higher education and its internationalisation within the real international organisation (IO) policy context. With this foundation, I derived a…
Descriptors: Universities, Global Approach, Higher Education, International Organizations
Mahasin F. Saleh; Samah A. Gamar – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
This case study explores the potential for democratic governance in state-regulated Arab higher education systems focusing on institutional committee members' adoption of deliberative, empowered and participatory evidence-based decision-making practices while engaged in university policy development. Amidst a landscape characterised by the forces…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Arabs, Universities, Policy Formation
Piotr Urbanek – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
The neo-institutional theory indicates the impact of the institutional environment on organizations. This leads to the creation of homogeneous institutional structures, due to the existence of dominant institutional logic. University reforms, embedded in ideas of New Public Management, mean that evolution of the institutional logic associated with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Public Colleges, Universities
McStravock, Kevin – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2023
Students who serve on the governing body of UK and Irish higher education institutions often report challenges due to a perceived power dynamic. This study explored the perspectives of power among current and former student governors (n = 14). This research highlighted the importance of power and its role in determining the influence (or lack of)…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Governance, Higher Education, Student Participation
Matthew Burns – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This paper examines the communication patterns of an academic program and the power dynamics between faculty, staff, and student workers. This study utilized participatory action research and consisted of two cycles of data collection. Additionally, this study relied heavily on current research and findings for nonacademic programs like libraries…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Power Structure, Teacher Student Relationship, College Freshmen
Carolyn Sale – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article provides an account of the undermining of collegial governance at the University of Alberta in relation to the restructuring of the university in 2020 by the senior administration and board on advice provided by the Australian consultancy firm, the Nous Group. The current president of the university has publicly promoted the…
Descriptors: Universities, Governance, Collegiality, Barriers
Frenkel, Stephen J. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
The university academic manager (AM) or head of school/department is typically positioned in a hierarchical world: as a middle manager 'sandwiched' between senior management and subordinates. I propose a different framing: the AM cohabits two worlds, the worlds of hierarchy and collegiality respectively. Using an ideal type framework and data…
Descriptors: College Administration, Deans, Governance, Middle Management
Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2022
This article relies on two international projects to argue for the existence of a 'centrarchy' in the fields of education and technology (and beyond). Centrarchy denotes a power structure in which power rests with 'the Centre'. The Centre signifies well-respected departments, top-tiered journals, the best editors, critical reviewers and leading…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Governance, Researchers, Politics of Education
