This bibliography of 96 items on governance and control of colleges and universities centers mainly on the role and character of trustees and trusteeships. However, items are also included on the administration of church-related institutions, and the roles of students and faculty in governance. The items are drawn from publications appearing from…

This paper, which presented a nation-wide picture of the organization, control, and support of community colleges, updated information gathered by a similar study contacted in 1967. Data were gathered from letters sent to the offices in each state that had been identified as responsible for junior colleges by the previous study. Conclusions based…

Governance, purposes, and management are not issues isolated from one another; rather, these are elements of a continuous process on which the survival of higher education depends. Chapter 1, Purposes and Objectives, reviews the context of leadership and performance, the purposes of higher education, the objectives and internal conflict, and the…

There has been a trend in state government toward tighter and tighter centralization that, though done in the name of greater economy and efficiency, is in large part a reach for political power. Not all services of the state can be performed well if integrated into a single monolithic administrative pyramid with all other state services and…

In March of 1972 the Subcommittee on a Legislative Body of the College Committee on Institutional Priorities and Resources at Dickinson College proposed several resolutions that would include certain students and administrators as voting members of the Faculty Committee, a governing body that handles legislation and regulation in academic matters…

This document presents a study of the historical origins and outcomes of the practice of elected faculty representation on the Board of Trustees of Roosevelt University. It examines the reasons why the University's founders chose to adopt this mode of governance when they established the institution in 1945, and the University's experience with…

The plight of the approximately 500,000 Metis, people of Indian and mixed blood, and Non-Status Indians, people of Indian ancestry who have lost their status for one reason or another, has been ignored both by the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments of Canada. The Metis and Non-Status Indians have won group recognition by organizing…

Cuyahoga Community College's governing board was reorganized on the basis of three committees--Planning and Evaluation, Management, and Community Affairs--with clear guidelines for each. The board has come through two years of problem-solving with good results and attributes much of the success to adequate committee staffing. (Author/LBH)

Provides a profile of governing-board members in Canadian postsecondary institutions, specifically listing seven generalizations useful in identifying trustee characteristics. The intention was to determine how trustees may affect governing board effectiveness. (Author/RK)

Vassar College's first "young trustee," elected soon after her graduation for a 4-year term, describes her unexpected role: instead of representing students she represented a fresh point of view and argues for a broadening of board perspectives through broader-based board membership, e.g. a college teacher, a welfare mother, a 50-year…

Seven questions are provided for trustees to ask when making decisions about institutional planned borrowing, debt management, and land development that involve external parties or complex financing mechanisms. (MSE)

Successful park and recreation organizations rely on citizen boards and commissions whose membership includes effective and efficient leaders. To develop leadership skills, a training program for these boards is described; steps to establish and organize such a program are given. (JL)

A higher return on endowment--and knowing how and when to spend it--can help prevent large tuition increases. The extent to which endowment income can and should support operating budgets is the product not only of wise investment policies but of appropriate spending philosophies. (MLW)

Governor Schaefer of Maryland declared that higher education would be the top priority this year. His major proposal was to bring the 13 four-year colleges and universities under the governance of a single board, while limiting the power of the statewide coordinating board and eliminating single campus boards. (MLW)

Reviews the literature on library network governance with particular attention to the role of lay trustees, and describes the composition of 12 multistate library network boards. A model for the selection of lay trustees that is based on needed outside expertise is presented. (23 references) (CLB)