Academic Boards: Less Intellectual and More Academic Capital in Higher Education Governance?

Autor/in	Rowlands, Julie
Titel	Academic Boards: Less Intellectual and More Academic Capital in Higher Education Governance?
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 38 (2013) 9, S.1274-1289 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2011.619655
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Colleges; Governance; College Administration; College Governing Councils; Knowledge Economy; Higher Education; Personality; Power Structure; Economic Factors; Educational History; Quality Assurance; Australia; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Hochschulrat; Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Personalität; Ökonomischer Faktor; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Qualitätssicherung; Australien; Großbritannien
Abstract	A historically informed analysis of the academic board or senate in Australian universities, and in the wider higher education environment, particularly the UK, indicates that the role and function of academic boards has fundamentally changed in the past 30 years. Within the context of universities being repositioned to serve global knowledge economies, a comparison between contemporary university governance structures and those from the 1960s and the 1990s provides evidence of a significant diminution of the power and status of boards relative to executive management, and a heightened focus on the functions of academic quality assurance. As Bourdieu would suggest, academic boards continue to hold more symbolic than real power, due to the rise of academic rather than intellectual capital. Consequently, academic boards have become a key site of struggle over the role and function of the multinational corporate university and academic work. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10