Governance Newsletter – Winter 2016
We’ve dedicated this issue of Governance to looking at ways to decrease the costs of higher education for students, parents, and taxpayers in North Carolina.
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Higher Education Is Changing, and So Must “Shared Governance”
William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin, both former college presidents (Princeton and Hamilton, respectively) grasp the crucial fact that the good old days of higher education are gone. In their new book, Locus of Authority, they tackle the traditional shared governance system (that is, the division of responsibility between the administration and the faculty). That system needs to change because it is getting in the way of the flexibility that is now essential.
Governance Newsletter – Fall 2015
This issue of Governance is dedicated to First Amendment rights on North Carolina’s campuses. We provide free speech ratings for each UNC system institution and explore the creation of the…
Governance Newsletter – July 2015
We provide criteria for resizing the UNC system, review the results of a Civitas Institute poll, challenge faculty to teach more, and explain why the North Carolina General Assembly should…
A coalition for transparency at the UNC Board of Governors is building
UNC Board of Governors meetings are hard to navigate for the uninitiated, such as a member of the public. The committee rooms are small, spread out, and poorly labeled. All the people who attend the meetings seem to know each other. Finding a place to sit in the boardroom often means arriving an hour before the meeting begins. And if you don’t get a seat, you’re out of luck. Although the main board meeting is video-streamed into the lobby, it’s hard to hear and it isn’t recorded.
When university boards of governance actually govern
It is heartwarming to see state officials do the jobs they were elected to do. Too often they have shied away from their obligations to ensure that the university system adheres to appropriate standards of scholarship.
Governance Newsletter – October 2014
We discuss controversial presidential searches around the country, propose five ideas for the UNC Board of Governors, and report on a new rating of North Carolina education schools.
Governance Newsletter – April 2014
In this issue, we take a look at the NC General Assembly’s shift towards “performance funding” for the UNC higher education system. We also examine the Board of Governor’s need…
Governance Newsletter – January 2014
In this issue of Governance, we examine the changes happening at the University of Wisconsin and their fight for who should run the university. We also take a look at…
University Governance’s Missing Link
Giving the public university system its own executive director would solve the “asymmetry of information” problem.