Former college president Susan Resneck Pierce draws on years of
experience consulting with colleges and universities and shares her
inside view of the growing tensions around the traditional shared
governance model.
This book explores the topic of governance both as it is being practiced
in the current educational and economic environment and how it might
more effectively function. It identifies key challenges facing trustees,
presidents, senior administrators and faculty and specifies their
responsibilities. The book is grounded in the notion that both the
external and internal pressures facing colleges and universities today
demand that boards do more than just come for lunch and bask in the
prestige that being a trustee brings to them. Rather, they must add
genuine value to the institution and must be the president's strategic
partner. In this book, Pierce addresses the following questions:
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Who should be responsible for the nature and pace of change on
campuses?
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How can colleges and universities simultaneously be able to make
pressing decisions in a timely fashion while giving appropriate
deference to the faculty in academic matters?
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Given the critical role of the president, how should boards select and
evaluate presidents, and what role should other members of the campus
community, particularly the faculty, play in these activities?
Governance
Reconsidered: How Boards, Presidents, Administrators, and Faculty Can
Help Their Colleges Thrive
By Susan R. Pierce
Wiley / 978-1-118-73849-8/ May 2014
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