Improving Faculty Governance

Improving Faculty Governance

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Title: Improving Faculty Governance : Cultivating Leadership & Collaboration in Decision
Author: Michael T. Miller
Description: The National Data Base on Faculty Involvement in Governance Project

Improving Faculty Governance

The book subsequently reports on the first ever five-year longitudinal study of how faculty governance can be improved, the specific roles to be played and challenges to effective participation from the perspectives of faculty, provosts, and even college presidents. The communication patterns of faculty among themselves in decision making are also identified and correlated to effective voting patterns. The identified strategies are then examined through an ethnographic case study and a critical profile of national issues, all culminating in key strategies for faculty and administrators to improve shared governance.

begins with a critical examination of the contemporary faculty member and the challenges of protecting academic democracy in the context of the increasingly corporate university. The ideas of trust and respect are examined between faculty and administrators, along with the positive and negative aspects of part-time faculty reliance.
Contents:

Dedication iii
Foreword v
List of Figures and Tables vii

Chapters:

  1. The Rationale for Shared Governance 1
    • State of Decision-Making in Colleges and Universities 4
    • Context of the Faculty Member 9
    • Democracy and Demand Making 14
    • Power and Resources for Decision-Making 16
    • Benefits and Barriers 18
    • Why Faculty are Involved 20
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 22
  2. Environments and Culture of Faculty Involvement in Governance 25
    • Administrative Trust 31
    • Faculty Trust 34
    • Part-Time Faculty 36
    • Student Participation in Governance 40
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 44
  3. The National Data Base on Faculty Involvement in Governance Project 47
    • Founding the Data Base 48
    • Phases of Data Base Work 52
      • Phase I: Faculty Profiles 53
      • Phase II: Faculty Governance Leaders 54
      • Phase III: Topics and Issues Considered 55
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 55
  4. Faculty Governance Units 59
    • Baseline NDBFIG Data 60
    • Faculty Role in Governance 61
    • Faculty and Their Involvement 62
    • Ideal Governance Processes 66
    • College Presidents and Faculty Involvement 68
    • How Provosts Value Involvement 72
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 80
  5. Faculty Governance Leaders 85
    • Profiling Governance Leaders 86
    • Profile of 4-Year Faculty Governance Leaders 87
    • Skills and Stressors 92
    • Profile of 2-Year Faculty Governance Leaders 95
    • Tasks and Skills 98
    • Motivation 101
    • Classification of Senate Leaders 103
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 106
  6. Faculty Involvement in Governance Issues 111
    • National Observation 112
      • 1994 113
      • 1995 114
      • 1996 115
      • 1997 116
      • Overall 117
    • Leaders Respond 118
      • Case 1: A Community College 122
      • Case 2: An Academic College 128
    • Attendance Patterns 129
    • Agendas 132
    • Decisions 134
    • Issues Considered 134
    • Discussion 135
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 136
  7. Implications for Current Practice 139
    • Practical Implications for Faculty Leaders and Administrators 140
      1. Develop a Future Senate 140
      2. Foster Leadership 142
      3. Create Systems 143
      4. Define An Agenda and Topics 144
      5. Make a Commitment to Representative Training 146
      6. Find and Invest in Resources 147
      7. Establish Networks 148
      8. Communicate among Leaders 149
      9. Foster Good Senatorship 150
      10. Commit time to Transitions 151
      11. Demand the Respect of Administrators and Governing Board Members 152
      12. Demand the Respect of Fellow Faculty 152
    • Impact on Faculty Involvement in Governance 154

References 159

Appendices

  • APPENDIX 1 165
    Principles of Faculty Involvement in Institutional and Academic Unit Governance at the University of Michigan
  • APPENDIX 2 169
    Faculty Senate By-Laws from the University of Alabama
  • APPENDIX 3 180
    By-Laws of the Faculty Senate at Columbia University
 
About the Author:

Dr. Michael T. Miller is an Associate Professor in the College of Education, University of Arkansas. He also authored Responsive Academic Decision Making: Involving Faculty in Higher Education Governance, published by New Forums Press in 1999.
 
Details: 2003 [ISBN: 1-58107-074-8; 216 pages soft cover; 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inch]