When I write about tenure, one of the most common defenses I get is tenure’s necessity for institutional “shared governance.” As commenter “pquincy” put it when responding to a recent post, “Without ...

The history of shared governance in universities is long and layered, rooted in medieval traditions and evolving through American higher education. The earliest universities, such as Bologna and Paris ...

Susan Resneck Pierce’s new book, “Shared Governance Reconsidered,” offers a useful outline of many of the dilemmas facing shared governance in American higher education, and I’m not just saying that ...

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Debates are raging on many campuses over faculty unionization. I’m not a supporter, but as a longtime member and former chair of our campus senate, I’m especially troubled by unionization’s ...

Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Affiliate, Duke Global Health Institute Associate of the Duke Initiative for ...

Connecticut College students, faculty, staff and administrators are committed to a system of governance in which the perspectives of all groups are considered in the institution's decision-making ...

For many founders and product leaders, governance still sounds like an abstract layer associated with protocols, boards or ...

Shared governance is a dynamic employee-leader partnership that promotes collaboration, shared decision making and accountability for improving quality of care, safety, and enhancing work life.

Governance is the name commonly given to the processes by which the faculty and staff express and exercise their governance authority and responsibilities in support of the University at Buffalo. It ...