School/Community-Based Management (SCBM) improves the quality of education by providing schools with administrative flexibility and by empowering each school's community to make and implement decisions that will directly affect its members and students. To help individual school communities that are considering adopting SCBM understand how shared…

Changes in the institutional control of faculty behavior are examined, stressing that such control includes not only control by a faculty member's own university, but also, increasingly, regulation and other influences exerted by institutions outside the university. The review of the literature focuses on ways in which changes in the external…

University autonomy is a concept widely discussed and often misunderstood. In the Latin American context, university autonomy has been regarded as something inherent to the nature of the universities. As long as universities exist, the phenomenon of university autonomy will be present . University autonomy should be examined in the light of such…

Characterizes Spanish universities during the period 1939-77. Examines the changing relationships that emerged during this period among the political establishment, the general social transformations that occurred in the country, and the people directly concerned with higher education and scientific research. (Author/AV)

University governance in India is discussed and compared to models of governance in other countries, particularly England and the United States. It is concluded that universities in India today have little autonomy, and are run like any other public institution. (JMD)

As examples of the trend towards decision-making processes resting on the interaction of various legitimate public sector interests, the author considers outside forces producing operational strictures within the system, including executive orders, lapsing and allotment procedures, accounting requirements, information demands, legal opinions,…

In this philosophical essay about the role of a private college, this author declares himself on the side of the university with a mission. It is contended that otherwise there is little point in the struggle to maintain the "privacy" of the university. Points raised deal with the alumni role, political and religious ideology, curriculum needs,…

Examines three areas in which legislatures have attempted to interfere in what courts have come to perceive as "exclusively higher education affairs" in those states with constitutionally mandated higher education governing bodies that have a legal status equal to that of the legislative and executive branches of government. (Author/IRT)

Reviews changes in the relationship between American research universities and the federal government from 1945 to the present. During the 1950s and early 1960s, universities were supported in applied science and socially beneficial research. In current times, universities are becoming more autonomous in examining questions of social theory and…

The San Mateo County (California) Community College District has developed an effective cooperative working relationship among the three colleges and the central office. The effect of updating the district's educational program master plan on institutional autonomy, coordination, and general renewal is examined. (LBH)

Second in a series of articles on the federal involvement in education, this article deals with the funding and control of academic research and biomedicine. Emphasis is on the relationship between government funding and government intervention, particularly in research universities and medical schools. (LBH)

A reduction of the total number and scope of government regulations can be accomplished only through a basic commitment by institutions to the development of credible self-regulating mechanisms. These should have the authority to monitor institutional policy and practices. (Author/LBH)

Institutional autonomy is discussed in terms of: (1) what functions society expects higher education to perform: (2) the effect of institutional dependence on public financing; and (3) the social importance of higher education. (LBH)

The relationships between government and the universities are explored with examples given of government infringement upon university autonomy and abridgement of commitments. The reasons for the absence of public protest are analyzed. A conclusion is that a university's relations with government reflect the current realities of power and…

Two policies--freedom to carry out research as determined by the individual scholar and the mandate to make the results of that research broadly available--are crucial elements in the successful functioning of universities. Possible conflicts and their ramifications are discussed. (MLW)