Governance is the name commonly given to the processes by which the faculty and staff express and exercise their governance authority and responsibilities in support of the University at Buffalo. It ...

Discussed assigned articles on shared governance and engaged in conversations with third-party consultants about related best practices (November and December 2020). Continued personal explorations of ...

They say that challenge breeds innovation, and it’s clear that the higher education sector has faced no shortage of challenges in recent years. Perhaps that’s why an increasing number of institutions ...

When I write about tenure, one of the most common defenses I get is tenure’s necessity for institutional “shared governance.” As commenter “pquincy” put it when responding to a recent post, “Without ...

The occasional tendency to link the focused concept of academic freedom to the much broader concept of “shared governance” reinforces the need to re-examine how shared governance should be thought ...

Shared governance is a dynamic employee-leader partnership that promotes collaboration, shared decision making and accountability for improving quality of care, safety, and enhancing work life.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about higher ed issues, leadership, finance, and innovation. Colleges and universities in the United States are governed ...

Debates are raging on many campuses over faculty unionization. I’m not a supporter, but as a longtime member and former chair of our campus senate, I’m especially troubled by unionization’s ...

In the aftermath of the untimely death of young Adriana Younge under very controversial circumstances, violence and other acts of criminality erupted in several parts of the country involving persons ...

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