This publication analyzes governing and policy documents for student publications from various types of colleges and universities and discusses organizational arrangements and strengths and weaknesses of the documents' various approaches. The eight chapters deal with (1) governance and varied approaches to student publications, (2) legal and…

One of the most influential factors leading to the strengthening of the states' role in higher education is the coordinating agency which acts in liaison between both the state and national capitols and the universities. The states continue to experiment with 3 types of coordinating systems: the voluntary council consisting of public college and…

Contrary to popular belief, much power is vested in university governing boards that are usually composed of individuals not professionally concerned with higher education. The Center conducted a study in 1965 of trustees at 38 member institutions of the American Association of Universities, in an effort to expand previous findings on governing…

The Midwest Community College Leadership Council is a cooperative agency of the University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and Michigan State University. It has sponsored conferences for trustees and presidents of newly formed junior colleges. Ten representative addresses from the conferences, collected in this paper, cover different aspects…

Under legislation passed at the January 1973 Session of the Rhode Island State Legislature, the Board of Regents has, as one of its specific functions, the determination of the necessity of school construction and the approval of standards for design and construction of school building throughout the state. The procedures contained in this…

Coordinating boards, no matter how carefully constructed, are super bureaucracies. Battles inevitably ensue between a coordinating board and the institutions that it proports to coordinate. Strong coordinating boards work best in large industrialized states, states with populations running into the many millions and spending hundreds of millions…

Structures for governing and coordinating higher education are changing. However, the primary responsibility for education rests with the state. The coordinating agency, which occupies the middle-ground between the institutions and the political decision-makers, should have 5 minimum abilities: (1) to engage in continuous planning, both long-range…

The primary purpose of the institute was to give members of the board of trustees of small colleges a better understanding of their proper roles and functions. The emphasis was on increasing the effectiveness of the trustee, both in his general relationship to the college and in his working and policy-formulating relationship to the president and…

This report makes recommendations concerning the composition, structure and functioning of the Board of Trustees of Columbia University. It also reviews the responsibilities of the Trustees which include: (1) examining and affirming the purpose and goals of the University; (2) appointing the President; (3) developing new sources of financial…

The first 28 pages summarize the whole report. The rest is devoted to the Progress Report itself. Part I deals with the Regents' review of the progress reports of the State University of New York, the City University of New York, and the private colleges and universities in the state. Included in this consideration are reports of the institutions'…

Changes in college government generally incorporate the following features: (1) they provide structural means for the expression of opinion, (often the right to vote) to representatives of groups hitherto underrepresented or unrepresented on decision-making bodies; (2) they are intended to make the decision-making process more explicit, and more…

The study compares the background and characteristics of administrators and faculty, and their perceptions of what the goals of the university are, what they should be, and what persons or groups are in positions of real power. An attempt was also made to ascertain how the global characteristics and power structure of the university are related to…

Six priority problems of governance are discussed to parallel in part and to complement the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education list of priority problems. The Carnegie Commission suggests the six major problems concern: (1) the adequate provision for intellectual, academic, and administrative independence of the institution; (2) the role of…

The Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 15, Wenatchee Valley College, adopted a resolution to govern the representation of academic employees in their relations with the Community College District. Emphasis is placed on recognition, guiding principles, procedures, resolution of differences, and revision. (MJM)

The Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 2 and the Grays Harbor College Faculty Association agreement concerning cooperative board-Staff relations is presented. Following recognition, emphasis is placed on procedures, and resolution of differences. The section on procedures covers association participation, directing requests,…