Blockchain to improve Academic Governance

In Canada, only 44% of members of academic governance bodies at universities feel that their boards are effective decision-making bodies (Jones, Shanahan, & Goyan, 2004). In this study, we examined the views of senators at a British Columbia university regarding their senate’s effectiveness in decision-making, including structures, processes, and leadership, and their suggestions for potential changes. Eight interviews were conducted with current or recent former senators in May 2012; each interview lasted 30 to 60 minutes. At the time of the interviews, fewer than half of the senators stated that the senate was effective, with concerns concentrated in the areas of committees, participation of faculty and students, and level of debate. This research has implications for enhancing the effectiveness, legitimacy, and credibility of institutional academic governance structures and processes, particularly in the Canadian context.

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The Institutionalisation of Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance: Longstanding Patterns and Emerging Paradoxes

Gender Studies and the New Academic Governance ◽

10.1007/978-3-658-19853-4_9 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 179-199 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maria do Mar Pereira

Keyword(s):

Gender Studies ◽

Academic Governance

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Invisible Injustice

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity in Contemporary Higher Education - Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-5724-1.ch016 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 261-277

Author(s):

Raquel M. Rall ◽

Demetri L. Morgan ◽

Felecia Commodore

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Literature Review ◽

Institutional Change ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Public Higher Education ◽

Research Knowledge ◽

The Public ◽

Academic Governance ◽

Comprehensive Literature Review ◽

Demographic Shifts

Given the juxtaposition of student demographic shifts in public higher education with the near stagnancy of postsecondary leadership demographics, this chapter illuminates and critiques scholarship at the intersection of equity and academic governance, specifically focused on boards of higher education. Implications, grounded in a comprehensive literature review, frame a new conceptually focused research agenda concerned with (1) challenging homogeneity and hegemony that slow institutional change efforts, (2) pushing for a board representative of and accountable to the public, and (3) extending the research, knowledge, and conversation centered on higher education boards in general and diversity of boards in particular. The chapter per the authors first highlights the prominence of higher education governing boards then shifts to a critique of how governance has traditionally been researched. Afterward, the authors discuss why a concentrated look at issues of diversity and equity within the governance context is of paramount importance.

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Academic Governance Arrangements

10.4018/978-1-7998-8279-4.ch006 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 91-105

Author(s):

Vivek Soni ◽

Devinder Kumar Banwet

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Analysis ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Education Sector ◽

Risk Minimization ◽

Research Practices ◽

Academic Governance ◽

Academic Activities ◽

Starting Point ◽

Governance Arrangements

Governing the quality of academic activities at the institution level is a challenging task. Literature shows that the model of academic governance considers quality but still lacks proper standardization of academic functions and risk minimization in higher institutes. In the current chapter, the authors present a conceptual framework of academic governance, different arrangements settings, and exploring nexus of governance in education sector: how it operates to support the quality of academic activities. Using literature content and qualitative analysis, firstly the chapter explores a few factors of academic governance such as expectations of regulators, standards, and quality, and secondly, it presents influences due to pandemic on academic governance. At the last, this chapter draws inferences to act as a starting point for the study on academic governance, refers knowledge, infuses more research practices, and answers a few questions that might surface from the implementation of academic governance in assuring quality.

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Competitiveness and Research-Oriented Teaching in Romanian Universities: The Neo-Liberal Transformation of the Higher Education System

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia ◽

10.1515/subbs-2015-0002 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 23-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sorin Gog

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Education System ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Budget Cuts ◽

Higher Education System ◽

Academic Governance ◽

Role Quality ◽

The Past ◽

Academic Management ◽

Structural Mechanisms

Abstract This paper focuses on the recent neo-liberal transformation in the Romanian education system and analyzes the genealogy of a new form of academic governance that has been implemented in higher education institutions in the past decade. It examines the role quality indicators and supplementary funding have played in the gradual embedding and naturalization of neo-liberal disciplinary reforms in universities and the specific quality enhancement policies that aimed at increasing the productivity of academic workers by stimulating the competition among them. The main argument of the paper is that in order to understand the extensive academic management based on scientometrics and recurrent evaluation of academics we need to look at the structural mechanisms that have shaped higher education institutions in accordance with market rules and at the generalization of competitiveness throughout the system in the context of budget cuts and decreasing resources allocated to education.

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