Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education: The Perspectives of the Academy

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External drivers are pressing for a more privatized approach to higher education and research, a greater reliance on technology and the more efficient use of resources. But many academics perceive these changes to be imposed from above with little consultation and an inadequate consideration of the beliefs and values that have traditionally guided academic work. The tensions between academic beliefs and contemporary drivers is more evident in certain national systems than in others, and within each system the tension raises particular issues. This book provides a framework for the analysis of recent changes in institutional governance and management in higher education and their impact on the academy and academic work globally. It pinpoints, as far as possible, the areas where recent change is perceived positively and negatively by academics themselves. Changing Governance and Management in Higher Education: The Perspectives of the Academy draws on the findings of an international study based on a common survey of academics in eighteen countries across five continents. The book opens with a chapter outlining the key issues, drivers and challenges that inform contemporary discourse around academic work and the profession in general. It then focuses primarily on national case studies, comparing changes in the top tier with the lower tiers of national systems, public and private institutions, and other differentiating factors as appropriate in each country, which include both mature and emerging higher education systems. The book concludes by proposing a series of generalizations about the contemporary status of governance and management of institutions of higher education. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-16 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 Argentina: Changes in Academics’ Involvement in the Governance and Management of Public Universities....Pages 19-33 Brazil: Diverse Experiences in Institutional Governance in the Public and Private Sectors....Pages 35-56 México: A Portrait of a Managed Profession....Pages 57-81 Malaysia: Perspectives of University Governance and Management within the Academic Profession....Pages 83-105 South Africa: Recklessly Incapacitated by a Fifth Column – The Academic Profession Facing Institutional Governance....Pages 107-125 Front Matter....Pages 127-127 Australia: The Changing Academic Profession – An enCAPsulation....Pages 129-149 Canada: Perspectives on Governance and Management....Pages 151-174 The United Kingdom: Academic Retreat or Professional Renewal?....Pages 175-197 The United States of America: Perspectives on Faculty Governance, 1992–2007....Pages 199-222 Germany: How Changing Governance and Management Affects the Views and Work of the Academic Profession....Pages 223-241 Finland: CAPtive Academics – An Examination of the Binary Divide....Pages 243-262 Norway: Between Humboldtian Values and Strategic Management....Pages 263-280 Japan: Effects of Changing Governance and Management on the Academic Profession....Pages 281-319 South Korea: Decentralized Centralization – Fading Shared Governance and Rising Managerialism....Pages 321-342 Hong Kong: Governance and the Double-Edged Academy....Pages 343-368 Comparative Perspectives: Emerging Findings and Further Investigations....Pages 369-379 The International Study of the Changing Academic Profession : A Unique Source for Examining the Academy’s Perception of Governance and Management in Comparative Perspective....Pages 381-383 Back Matter....Pages 385-390