Downturn Threatens the Faculty's Role in Running Colleges

Autor/in	Wilson, Robin
Titel	Downturn Threatens the Faculty's Role in Running Colleges
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2009) 22, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Governance; College Governing Councils; College Faculty; Teacher Role; College Curriculum; Tenure; Administrators; Economic Factors; Financial Exigency + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Hochschulrat; Fakultät; Lehrerrolle; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Ökonomischer Faktor; Finanzielle Härte
Abstract	The author reports that tough economic times are leading administrators to propose changes that short-circuit faculty governance, long a prized principle that gives professors wide-ranging authority over educational matters. The results, faculty members say, are hastily conceived plans that reorganize academic programs, decrease professors' roles in shaping the curriculum, and jeopardize tenure applications--all done with little advice from the faculty, in the name of saving money. Administrators insist they do consult widely with professors, but charge that faculty senates can be difficult to work with. Administrators also acknowledge that they can not always spend months deliberating over a plan, pointing out that it is they who are held responsible by boards for whether a university thrives. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10