Financial Governance in University Academic Units

Governance and Financial Fragility

Measuring Productivity Changes in Academic Units

In this study, the productivity changes of industrial and comprehensive universities have been measured using the Malmquist Index based on data envelopment analysis in the period of 2013-2014 and 2014- 2015. The input variables include the number of faculty members, the number of newly enrolled students, the number of staff, and total expenses; the output variables also include the number of cu...

Academic Rankings and Research Governance

Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of academic rankings, in particular their unintended negative consequences on the research process. To counte...

Effective Shared Governance : Academic Governance as a Win - Win Proposition

describe increased struggles between academics and administrators—struggles arising from the rapidly expanding role of administration in collegial governance. This expansion challenges faculty preference for slower, deliberate change, and for collegial, consensual decision-making. “You will find universities that 10 years ago were run in a collegial fashion now completely structured to look fro...

The US Academy’s Perceptions of Academic Governance

U.S. institutions of higher education trace their origins primarily to British models, with an overlay of German influence especially in the organization of graduate education and research. Through the mid-nineteenth century most U.S. institutions were privately established, but thereafter (at least until very recently) the public sector has received much support. The long history of private es...