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Direct linkBjørn Stensaker; Jens Jungblut; Georgiana Mihut – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Numerous universities throughout the world have established top-level advisory boards -- informal bodies and councils that the institutional leadership may consult on issues perceived as important. Through a series of qualitative interviews with members of such entities as well as representatives of the institutions appointing them, the article…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Governance, Universities
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Bhushan, Sudhanshu – Higher Education for the Future, 2023
Rules and rationalities are the bases of analysis in rules determined governance model. Power as the ability to influence decision-making and the influence of power centres are not sufficiently examined in the literature on the governance of higher education. The article locates various centres of power in the functioning of universities and how…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Governance, Universities, Decision Making
Pinyan Lin; Steven J. Courtney; Paul Armstrong; Amanda McKay – Oxford Review of Education, 2025
In China, formal school groupings known as 'education collectives' have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Figurative Language
Tessa DeLaquil – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This project aimed to understand the relationship between theoretical interpretations of multiple values and ideas of the universities from within and across different disciplines and their influence on higher education and its internationalisation within the real international organisation (IO) policy context. With this foundation, I derived a…
Descriptors: Universities, Global Approach, Higher Education, International Organizations
Mahasin F. Saleh; Samah A. Gamar – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2024
This case study explores the potential for democratic governance in state-regulated Arab higher education systems focusing on institutional committee members' adoption of deliberative, empowered and participatory evidence-based decision-making practices while engaged in university policy development. Amidst a landscape characterised by the forces…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Arabs, Universities, Policy Formation
Piotr Urbanek – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2025
The neo-institutional theory indicates the impact of the institutional environment on organizations. This leads to the creation of homogeneous institutional structures, due to the existence of dominant institutional logic. University reforms, embedded in ideas of New Public Management, mean that evolution of the institutional logic associated with…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Public Colleges, Universities
Carolyn Sale – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2024
This article provides an account of the undermining of collegial governance at the University of Alberta in relation to the restructuring of the university in 2020 by the senior administration and board on advice provided by the Australian consultancy firm, the Nous Group. The current president of the university has publicly promoted the…
Descriptors: Universities, Governance, Collegiality, Barriers
Derek Lehman; Amirhossein Teimouri – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
The rapidly growing body of scholarship exploring White Christian nationalism in the United States has generated criticism for a lack of conceptual specificity. To address this shortcoming, we propose conceptualizing White Christian nationalism as a social movement. We explore how this conceptualization improves on past frameworks and offers new…
Descriptors: Whites, Nationalism, Christianity, Adult Education
Staples, Kiri; Klein, Rhiannon; Southwick, Tosh; Kinnear, Lacia; Geddes, Carol; Gingell, Judy – Tertiary Education and Management, 2021
While literature on university governance in Canada has identified key challenges that need to be addressed, it largely overlooks calls for change towards indigenization within post-secondary institutions. Efforts towards indigenization are being made in practice, but little has been done to reflect on what this means for university governance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Governance, Educational Change
Ma, Jinyuan; Cai, Yuzhuo – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
This paper explores how a novel university governance model at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), largely learned from the West, has been implemented in the highly institutionalised and centralised Chinese higher education system. For this purpose, we first constructed an analytical framework, integrating the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Educational Change, Governance
Dillabough, Jo-Anne – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
Higher Education (HE) constitutes a space that calls urgently for new understandings in the contemporary political moment. One way of establishing such an understanding of HE is to consider more fully the work of political theorists in relation to questions of power in the modern nation-state, particularly as these impinge upon the key problem of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Attitudes, Power Structure, Conflict
Andrason, Alexander – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2023
The present article is dedicated to the hyper-hierarchization of small-scale organizational spaces (and the most immediate ones for most academics)--university departments. By using the anarchist critique of hierarchies to deconstruct the architecture of an undisclosed department located at one of the South African universities, the author…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Universities, Power Structure, Institutional Characteristics
Welsh, John – Power and Education, 2021
The bulk of research on academic rankings is policy-oriented, preoccupied with 'best practices', and seems incapable of transcending the normative discourse of 'governance'. To understand, engage, and properly critique the operation of power in academic rankings, the rankings discourse needs to escape the gravity of 'police science' and embrace a…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Best Practices, Governance
