Shared Governance in Higher Education, Volume 3

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

Shared governance impacts every member of the campus community, including faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Contributors to this volume—presenters at multiple SUNY Voices conferences on Shared Governance—explore how campus members can effectively improve the dialogue about critical issues and become better informed about the subtle, sophisticated strategies needed to move from discussion to action. Readers will gain new insights, enabling them to reexamine their own governance, both their current circumstances and possible futures. Included here are examinations of the key elements and models of shared governance, the role of faculty governance in institutional diversity and inclusion, relationship and rapport-building, and communication in times of change. Also discussed are assessment rubrics, campus and systemwide experiences, and analyses of shared governance in the accreditation process.
Preface: Enduring Shared Governance at SUNY
Nina Tamrowski

Introduction
Gwen Kay

Editor's Note: Governance Undimmed
Sharon F. Cramer

Part I: Perspectives on the Key Elements of Shared Governance

1. Characteristics of Shared Governance
Diane Bliss, Renee Lathrop, and Jeffrey Steele

2. Framing the Role of Faculty Governance Toward Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
Gordon Bigelow and Noelle Chaddock

3. Shared Governance: Valuing Each Other and Achieving More Together
Belinda S. Miles, Cliff L. Wood, and Kristine Young

Part II: Shared Governance in Times of Change: Necessary Components

4. Developing Rapport and Relationships with New Administrators
Margaret Ann Hoose and Barry Spriggs

5. The Rights, Wrongs, and Challenges of Governance Communications
Joe Marren

Part III: Avoiding Governance Quicksand: Pragmatic Considerations

6. The Campus Concept Committee: A Case Study in Shared Governance
Lisa M. Glidden and Deborah F. Stanley

7. Reflections on the Process for Developing a Rubric for Assessing Shared Governance
Deborah L. Moeckel

8. Back to the Past: Imagining the Future of Academic Governance
Michael DeCesare

Part IV: Lessons Learned

9 Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and SUNY's Shared Governance
Kenneth P. O'Brien

10. Lessons in Process: "It's Not Just About #Transparency, It's About #SharedGovernance"
Philip L. Glick and Domenic J. Licata

11. Nassau Community College at a Turning Point
Valerie H. Collins

12. Accreditation Academy! An Organic Approach to Preparing for an MSCHE Site Visit
Olin Stratton and Wendy Tarby

13. A Comparative Analysis of Regional Accreditors: Role of Shared Governance in Accreditation
Peter L. K. Knuepfer

Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Tertiary education

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• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438478708
• Langue: English

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Shared Governance in Higher Education
Shared Governance in Higher Education
Vitality and Continuity in Times of Change
VOLUME 3
Edited by
Sharon F. Cramer and Peter L. K. Knuepfer
Preface by
Nina Tamrowski
Introduction by
Gwen Kay
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cramer, Sharon F., editor | Knuepfer, Peter L. K., editor.
Title: Shared governance in higher education : vitality and continuity in times of change / edited by Sharon F. Cramer and Peter L. K. Knuepfer; preface by Nina Tamrowski; introduction by Gwen Kay.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016031462 (print) | LCCN 2016047976 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438478708 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438478692 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Education, Higher—United States—Administration. | Teacher participation in administration—United States. | Student participation in administration—United States.
Classification: LCC LB2341 (ebook) | LCC LB2341 .S44779 2017 (print) | DDC 378.1/01—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031462
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Contents
Preface: Enduring Shared Governance at SUNY
Nina Tamrowski
Introduction
Gwen Kay
Editor’s Note: Governance Undimmed
Sharon F. Cramer
Part I. Perspectives on the Key Elements of Shared Governance
1 Characteristics of Shared Governance
Diane Bliss, Renee Lathrop, and Jeffrey Steele
2 Framing the Role of Faculty Governance Toward Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
Gordon Bigelow and Noelle Chaddock
3 Shared Governance: Valuing Each Other and Achieving More Together
Belinda S. Miles, Cliff L. Wood, and Kristine Young
Part II. Shared Governance in Times of Change: Necessary Components
4 Developing Rapport and Relationships with New Administrators
Margaret Ann Hoose and Barry Spriggs
5 The Rights, Wrongs, and Challenges of Governance Communications
Joe Marren
Part III. Avoiding Governance Quicksand: Pragmatic Considerations
6 The Campus Concept Committee: A Case Study in Shared Governance
Lisa M. Glidden and Deborah F. Stanley
7 Reflections on the Process for Developing a Rubric for Assessing Shared Governance
Deborah L. Moeckel
8 Back to the Past: Imagining the Future of Academic Governance
Michael DeCesare
Part IV. Lessons Learned
9 Chancellor Nancy Zimpher and SUNY’s Shared Governance
Kenneth P. O’Brien
10 Lessons in Process: “It’s Not Just About #Transparency, It’s About #SharedGovernance”
Philip L. Glick and Domenic J. Licata
11 Nassau Community College at a Turning Point
Valerie H. Collins
12 Accreditation Academy! An Organic Approach to Preparing for an MSCHE Site Visit
Olin Stratton and Wendy Tarby
13 A Comparative Analysis of Regional Accreditors: Role of Shared Governance in Accreditation
Peter L. K. Knuepfer
Contributors
Index
Preface
Enduring Shared Governance at SUNY
Nina Tamrowski
“The State University of New York system, established in 1948, is the largest and most recently founded system of public higher education in the country. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, it encompassed sixty-four campuses, including the state’s thirty community colleges. Unlike in other public university systems, the research universities, comprehensive colleges, health science centers and medical schools, specialized colleges, contract colleges, and community colleges are all integral parts of the SUNY system. The different institutions have individual presidents or other presiding officers, but the system is governed by one chancellor and one board of trustees (the community colleges also have local boards of trustees as a part of their governance structure)” (Tamrowski et al., 2017).
The 64 campuses of this complex system are fortunate to have had leadership from the top that has modeled respect for the concept of shared governance, which works to realize best practices. Influence over system decision-making can be affected by administrators, faculty, staff, students, and trustees through a truly iterative policy review process.
The chancellor of SUNY from 2009 to 2017, Nancy L. Zimpher, helped institutionalize shared governance by building the very concept into her first strategic plan. The faculty governance leaders of the University Faculty Senate and the Faculty Council of Community Colleges worked to build a determinate shared governance plan that would show growth and measurable goals that could be accomplished over time. Among their outcomes were conferences on shared governance; trainings for campus governance leaders; support for hiring interns; support for faculty and student exchanges at each other’s meetings, and (so far) three edited volumes on shared governance, such as this one, that contain conference presentations.
This initiative and the resources for these events, publications, travel, and support was branded SUNY Voices. With a vision, a strategic plan, a business plan, and a budget, SUNY Voices has become institutionalized at SUNY as a demonstration of system support for shared governance.
The SUNY system has successfully transitioned from Chancellor Zimpher, who retired in fall 2017, to a new chancellor, Dr. Kristina Johnson. She was selected in 2017 after a nationwide search, bringing an eclectic background in government, the private sector, and academia to the position. Dr. Johnson has likewise embraced SUNY’s commitment to shared governance.
Upon Dr. Zimpher’s retirement, SUNY’s student and faculty governance bodies, the Student Assembly, the Faculty Council of Community Colleges, and the University Faculty Senate decided to create a Joint Statement on Shared Governance (see Appendix A to this preface). This declaration provided a record of the shared governance practices that had been established over the past decade at SUNY.
The introductory paragraph of the Joint Statement states “Shared governance has been instrumental in moving SUNY forward , especially in recent years when public higher education has endured many challenges.” The statement goes on to enumerate the ways shared governance is accomplished at SUNY.
The features of shared governance that are delineated include the presence of the student and faculty governance elected leaders as members of the SUNY Board of Trustees; their inclusion in the chancellor’s cabinet; the inclusion of faculty governance in any policy with academic implications and inclusion of students in policies affecting student affairs; regular meetings among the governance leaders with the chancellor; and the attendance of the chancellor and provost at plenaries of the three governance bodies.
The last characteristic, one of the most important items, states: “These principles and practices of SUNY system shared governance should serve as a model for effective shared governance at the campus level.” This is the hook that allows our faculty, staff, and student governance leaders on every campus to establish inclusive structures and transparent processes with the goal of improving shared governance on their campuses.
“Moving SUNY forward”: This is why shared governance is essential to producing better outcomes. Not only are the constituent parts better engaged in institutional success if they have accepted roles in shared governance, but decisions reflect those inputs. This is true at the system or campus level. The State University of New York has institutionalized the concept and, more important, the practices that represent the best in shared governance.
The chapters in this volume illustrate the many varied ways shared governance is exemplified at the campus and system levels, often with our faculty, staff, and student governance bodies in the lead.
References
Tamrowski, N., Good, T., Knuepfer, P., O’Brien, K. (2017, May–June). SUNY Voices: A successful joint effort to institutionalize faculty governance. Academe . https://www.aaup.org/article/suny-voices#.XbhIm-dKjUI .
Appendix A Joint Statement on Shared Governance for the State University of New York
Introductory Statement
The following short summary on Shared Governance in the system has been prepared by the Faculty Council of Community Colleges (FCCC), the Student Assembly (SA) and the University Faculty Senate (UFS) to express the state of shared governance at the system level of the State University of New York. Shared governance has been instrumental in moving SUNY forward, especially in recent years when public higher education has endured many challenges.
Summary Statement on the Principles and Practice of Shared Governance in SUNY
SUNY Shared Governance refers to the structures and processes through which constituent groups, including the above governance or