The Latent Organizational Functions of the Academic Senate: Why Senates Do Not Work but Will Not Go Away.

Birnbaum, Robert

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Publication Date: 1989

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The Latent Organizational Functions of the Academic Senate: Why Senates Do Not Work but Will Not Go Away.

Birnbaum, Robert

Journal of Higher Education, v60 n4 p423-43 Jul-Aug 1989

Academic senates remain an important feature of higher education governance even though they have been criticized as being ineffective. Senates are examined from the perspective of alternative organizational models, and it is suggested that the functions of the senate are best understood by considering colleges as symbolic systems. (Author/MLW)

Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, College Governing Councils, Collegiality, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Organizations, Governance, Higher Education, Models, Participative Decision Making

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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