This article discusses academic entrepreneurship in the context of ongoing changes in university management and governance in European universities. The comparative perspective is provided by the European Union (EU) research project "European Universities for Entrepreneurship: Their Role in the Europe of Knowledge" (EUEREK) comprising…

It has been increasingly evident that significant numbers of students are profoundly dissatisfied with the status quo, on as well as off the campus, and many of them are ready to use force and violence to change it. In some instances student activists want more participation in decision making, and in others they seek complete control. The…

This paper discusses three major statements on shared authority and points out that there appear to be three types: joint participation in decisionmaking, separate jurisdictions, and collective bargaining. Academic senates and campus councils are the major manifestations of the first two types and a brief discussion of the state and their…

This paper examines and analyzes a Human Services reform initiative in West Virginia and shows how various components responded to the reform particularly in identity construction. The analysis used an immunological metaphor within a Foucauldian understanding of power and knowledge. The study gathered data through participant and observer…

The public university will have to become responsive to a wider range of economic interests and a more diverse pattern of ethnic backgrounds. (Editor)

Institutions of higher education have outgrown their traditional organizational structure and greater influence and personal contact must be promoted between student-faculty-administration representatives. (Editor/IR)

This paper (1) reports some of the findings of a national needs survey of campus based women's centers; (2) details some of the common characteristics of campus based women's centers; (3) identifies problematic internal organizational issues; and (4) relates those organizational issues to institutional constraints. In particular, it notes some of…

The style of management in higher education has changed significantly in recent decades. The groups that have demanded, and in most cases been given, a share in the governance of the institution are the administration, the faculty, the students, and the non-faculty staff. The problem arises in implementing the claims for a share of authority. Some…

Proposes bicameral university legislature consisting of administration, faculty and student groups each given power to initiate legislation for particular areas, but requiring approval of the other group before implementation. (IR)

The term "governance" refers to the process and structure by which and through which decisions about current and projected activities on the campus are reached. The critical issues in governance in the mid-1970s are singled out and recent literature concerning them is presented. Those critical issues are: (1) the role of students in governance;…

Current decision-making practices at a sample of institutions offer suggestions about desirable faculty and administrator roles in the planning process. (Author/LBH)

Using the existing body of knowledge about both management and higher education, it is argued that the managerial climate surrounding professional level people should lean toward Douglas McGregor's Theory Y, a nonauthoritarian, nonautocratic style of leadership. A number of theories of leadership in organizations are brought into the discussion,…

Background information and an analysis of issues involved in the governance of new regional educational laboratories are presented. The new laboratories are to be established through a 1984 competition administered by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The analysis is designed to assist the Study Group on Regional Laboratories to advise…

In Australia the Federal Government plays a dominant role in higher education funding. Changes to the role and structure of the higher education system in 1988 aligned the universities more closely with national economic goals and sent the message to institutions that they were expected to adopt a more managerial mode of operation in order to…