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In higher education, governing boards hold considerable power. The most important decisions they make are the hiring, ...

St. Edward’s University faculty members have passed a vote of no confidence against President Montserrat Fuentes due to “grave” concerns about shared governance and administrative transparency, ...

The practice of shared governance — where faculty, staff, administrators, boards, and sometimes students share responsibility for decision-making and policy development — has long been considered a ...

Every day during the 2024 school year, about 165 West High School students exited the school with the closing bell, made their way to the school bus pick-up zone — and then waited 30 minutes for the ...

A dispute at the University of Kentucky over the academic authority of the university senate is the latest example of frayed notions about shared governance in higher education. An ongoing dispute ...

James T. Engell ’73 is the Gurney Research Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature and a member of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard. In my 55 years at Harvard and 46 ...

If the proposal goes forward, faculty power to make university policy would be reduced to a mere “advisory” role. Shared governance describes a form of political organization unique to higher ...

Arts & Sciences Council is calling for more shared governance and hopes Duke administrators “lean in” to support its plans. But faculty members remain uncertain on what the term means. The sentiments ...

As faculty governance leaders during Joan Gabel's term as University of Minnesota president, we offer this open letter as the Board of Regents moves to select an interim president. We write to elevate ...

Spring elections for the Associated Students of Madison, who are responsible for allocating nearly $50 million in segregated fees each year, begin March 10. University of Wisconsin students can cast ...