Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1

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Shared Governance in Higher Education Set (Volumes 1, 2 and 3)

For those seeking a way to change opinions of shared governance from pointless and unlikely to possible and intriguing, Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 1 will trigger meaningful conversations by offering valuable new perspectives. Experienced governance members, the contributors provide practical insights for everyone involved in academic governance and illuminate the subtle aspects of governance that make the difference between success or failure. Each chapter takes a different view of governing within institutions of higher education and explores topics such as engaging all stakeholders (including students) in shared governance; building on the benefits of a large, complex system; and bringing together pressing current needs with realistic strategic planning. Several in-depth descriptions of academic challenges, and the many roles of governance in addressing them, are thoughtfully explored. The contributors look both deeply and broadly, moving beyond platitudes. The result is a volume that will appeal to those beginning their terms of service as governance members or transitioning into leadership positions, as well as those looking for ways to assist others via governance symposia or conferences, and that will enable readers to shape their involvement in shared governance in unique new ways.
Preface
Peter L.K. Knuepfer

Introduction
Tina Good

Editor’s Note: Anchovies and Governance
Sharon F. Cramer

Part I. Shared Governance Stakeholders

1. Improving Shared Governance through Bylaws, Technology, and Collaboration
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon

Introduction
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon

I. Improving Shared Governance through Bylaws Review, Revision, and Ratification
Bruce Simon

II. Improving Shared Governance through a Focus on Technology
T. John McCune

III. Improving Shared Governance through Collaboration
Rob Deemer

Conclusion
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon

2. Engaging and Keeping Faculty and Students in Governance
Minna S. Barrett and Duncan Quarless

3. Hands across the Table: Integrating Students into Shared Governance
Oluwadamisi Atanda, Síocháin Hughes, Daniel Ryan, and Emily Sohmer Tai

Introduction
Emily Sohmer Tai

I. Shared Governance and Faculty-Student Partnerships: A History
Daniel Ryan

II. Building Faculty-Student Partnerships in Shared Governance I: The CUNY UFS and the CUNY USS
Síocháin Hughes

III. Building Faculty-Student Partnerships in Shared Governance II: The Student Perspective
Oluwadamisi Atanda with Emily Sohmer Tai

Conclusion
Emily Sohmer Tai

Part II. Broad-Based Shared Governance Explorations and Solutions

4. Sharing Shared Governance: The Benefits of Systemness
Sharon F. Cramer and Rochelle Mozlin

5. Governance Structures: Perspective on Administrative Task Forces in Shared Governance
Duncan Quarless and Minna S. Barrett

6. SUNY Seamless Transfer Policy and Shared Governance
Elizabeth L. Bringsjord, Daniel J. Knox, David Lavallee, and Kenneth P. O’Brien

7. Theorizing Open SUNY and Shared Governance: It’s a Process
Tina Good

Part III. Personalized Reflections: Examinations of Shared Governance Explorations and Solutions

8. Governance Leadership: A Journey
Kelley J. Donaghy

9. Diversifying Shared Governance: Intentional Strategies and Best Practices
Noelle Chaddock and Beth Hinderliter

10. A Self-Critique of Shared Governance at Medgar Evers College: The Recent Protest Years, 2009–2013
Sallie M. Cuffee, Owen Brown, and Evelyn Maggio

11. Conclusion: Working Together to Share Governance
Norman Goodman

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Tertiary education

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 30 mars 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438464282
• Langue: English

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Shared Governance in Higher Education
Shared Governance in Higher Education
Demands, Transitions, Transformations
VOLUME 1
Edited by
Sharon F. Cramer
Preface by
Peter L.K. Knuepfer
Introduction by
Tina Good
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Names: Cramer, Sharon F., editor.
Title: Shared governance in higher education : demands, transitions, transformations / edited by Sharon F. Cramer ; preface by Peter L.K. Knuepfer ; introduction by Tina Good.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Volume 1 —
Identifiers: LCCN 2016031462 (print) | LCCN 2016047976 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438464275 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438464282 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Education, Higher—United States—Administration. | Teacher participation in administration—United States. | Student participation in administration—United States.
Classification: LCC LB2341.S44779 2017 (print) | LCC LB2341 (ebook) | DDC 378.1/01—dc23
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Contents
Preface
Peter L.K. Knuepfer
Introduction
Tina Good
Editor’s Note: Anchovies and Governance
Sharon F. Cramer
Part I. Shared Governance Stakeholders
1 Improving Shared Governance through Bylaws, Technology, and Collaboration
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon
Introduction
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon
I. Improving Shared Governance through Bylaws Review, Revision, and Ratification
Bruce Simon
II. Improving Shared Governance through a Focus on Technology
T. John McCune
III. Improving Shared Governance through Collaboration
Rob Deemer
Conclusion
Rob Deemer, T. John McCune, and Bruce Simon
2 Engaging and Keeping Faculty and Students in Governance
Minna S. Barrett and Duncan Quarless
3 Hands across the Table: Integrating Students into Shared Governance
Oluwadamisi Atanda, Síocháin Hughes, Daniel Ryan, and Emily Sohmer Tai
Introduction
Emily Sohmer Tai
I. Shared Governance and Faculty-Student Partnerships: A History
Daniel Ryan
II. Building Faculty-Student Partnerships in Shared Governance I: The CUNY UFS and the CUNY USS
Síocháin Hughes
III. Building Faculty-Student Partnerships in Shared Governance II: The Student Perspective
Oluwadamisi Atanda with Emily Sohmer Tai
Conclusion
Emily Sohmer Tai
Part II. Broad-Based Shared Governance Explorations and Solutions
4 Sharing Shared Governance: The Benefits of Systemness
Sharon F. Cramer and Rochelle Mozlin
5 Governance Structures: Perspective on Administrative Task Forces in Shared Governance
Duncan Quarless and Minna S. Barrett
6 SUNY Seamless Transfer Policy and Shared Governance
Elizabeth L. Bringsjord, Daniel J. Knox, David Lavallee, and Kenneth P. O’Brien
7 Theorizing Open SUNY and Shared Governance: It’s a Process
Tina Good
Part III. Personalized Reflections: Examinations of Shared Governance Explorations and Solutions
8 Governance Leadership: A Journey
Kelley J. Donaghy
9 Diversifying Shared Governance: Intentional Strategies and Best Practices
Noelle Chaddock and Beth Hinderliter
10 A Self-Critique of Shared Governance at Medgar Evers College: The Recent Protest Years, 2009–2013
Sallie M. Cuffee, Owen Brown, and Evelyn Maggio
11 Conclusion: Working Together to Share Governance
Norman Goodman
List of Contributors
Index
Preface
Peter L. K. Knuepfer
The first SUNY Voices Shared Governance conference, “Shared Governance for Institutions of Higher Education in the 21st Century: Beyond Stereotypes” was held in Albany, New York, on April 23 and 24, 2014. More than 150 registrants, from campuses throughout the State University of New York and City University of New York as well as a number of other institutions, attended and participated in plenary and concurrent sessions that explored a broad range of topics around shared governance. The conference opened with remarks from SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman H. Carl McCall and SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher about SUNY’s commitment to shared governance. In addition to the two keynote addresses that Dr. Tina Good summarizes in her introduction, nineteen papers and panels were presented at the conference, and this volume contains fifteen papers that grew out of these conference presentations.
The conference included some general overviews of shared governance, especially viewed through a faculty lens, with a group of case studies that illustrate how shared governance structures and processes have led to successful outcomes, whereas in other cases a lack of effective shared governance has led to less robust results. Again, those foci are well represented by the papers contained in this volume.
The first group of papers explores a range of aspects regarding the interactions of different stakeholders in shared governance. The first three papers by Bruce Simon, T. John McCune, and Rob Deemer from SUNY Fredonia describe the ways in which they have leveraged modern technology and their own bylaws revisions to foster a greater degree of collaboration across all campus governance constituencies, including faculty (and the faculty-professional staff union), students, and administrators. Their papers highlight the processes developed at Fredonia that led to the campus being awarded the first SUNY Voices Shared Governance Award, in recognition of the collaborative structure that has evolved on the campus. The award, presented to Deemer and his colleagues by Chairman McCall, is aimed at recognizing effective engagement of campus constituencies—administrators, faculty, staff, students, governing board members—on a particular topic or general campus structure that addresses issues and policies that affect the SUNY campus. The award, which continues to be offered, honors a campus rather than an individual or single constituency.
The next set of papers explores the integration of students in shared governance, highlighting experiences from both the State University of New York and the City University of New York. Minna Barrett and Duncan Quarless explore the myriad pressures on shared governance that exist in the 21st-century university, and particularly those for a public university system committed to open access. In their review of the changing nature of shared governance, they consider approaches that can encourage faculty and students to participate—and continue to participate—in meaningful shared governance. Daniel Ryan provides an overview of faculty-student partnerships, viewed in particular from his experience at the University at Albany. The companion papers by Síocháin Hughes and by Oluwadamisi Atanda and Emily Sohmer Tai explore the relationships that have evolved at the City University of New York to more effectively engage student governance leaders in working with other governance bodies and limit the disconnects between student governance leaders and other governance constituencies while at the same time enhancing the educational opportunities that shared governance offers to students. The two papers examine the issue from perspectives not usually obtained: faculty, Office of Veterans Services, graduate student, and artist.
The next set of papers explores a number of structural aspects of shared governance. Sharon Cramer and Rochelle Mozlin identify “holes” in shared governance structures. They then offer “systemness” as a way to close them, exploring how taking advantage of the breadth of a university system can operate at both campus and system levels. Quarless and Barrett, in a second co-authored paper, recognize that existing governance structures on campuses may not always be adequate to address particular issues. They argue that the use of task forces, properly formulated, can be a useful response to these special circumstances. They caution that task forces need to be clearly defined, with proper attention to identifying appropriate expertise and to identifying to whom the task force will make recommendations; that the role of the task force within the shared governance structure of the academic unit needs to be clearly defined; and that the task force should operate in as open and transparent a manner as possible, depending on the nature of the issues to be addressed.
The next two papers summarize key aspects of two major initiatives within the SUNY System—seamless transfer (described by Elizabeth L. Bringsjord and co-authors) and Open SUNY (discussed by Tina Good). The two papers are good companions to explore how different structures were developed and employed to tackle system-wide initiatives. As Good argues, the ability of a range of cons