Title An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy : the community of scholars in America / Murray J. Leaf

Published [Cham, Switzerland] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : The stakes -- Academic freedom and academic democracy -- Organizations and culture -- The scale of the problem -- Organizational design -- The attacks -- The case studies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. The theory of organizations : Empirical social theory defined -- making organizations objective -- Components of the organizing process -- Outside organizations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. The university in America : Beginnings -- The research university in the United States -- American governing boards -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. The attacks : Diffuse attacks: defunding and corporatization -- Direct attacks: rhetoric and infrastructure -- The academic fifth column: Bloom, Strauss, and the neo-conservatives -- President Bush's attack at the federal level -- The continuing attack in the states -- Trump clarifies the stakes -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. Governing boards and faculty in Texas : California versus Texas overview -- The legal framework in Texas -- Shared governance at the UT system level -- Ground zero -- Ground zero moves on -- Conclusion on governing boards in Texas -- Major internet sources -- Bibliography. Governing boards and faculty in California : The legal framework in California -- Faculty authority -- Regental overreaching -- Faculty financial concerns -- Conclusion on the governing board in California -- Conclusion on governing boards in general -- Bibliography. UCLA and the University of California : The Berkeley revolution -- Local organization and the UCLA campus -- Meeting the challenges of 1965-1975 -- Senate, faculty associations, and unions -- Contingent faculty unionization -- Conclusion -- Major internet sources -- Bibliography. UT Dallas : Context -- The community of scholars and students -- External conflicts -- Internal conflicts -- Contingent faculty -- Growing governance downward -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. Reed College : Founding and first definition -- Curricular redesign -- Persistence -- Curricular integrity and faculty power -- College-level shared governance -- Challenges and responses -- Conclusion -- Major internet sources -- Bibliography. The University of Chicago : Chicago governance organization overview -- The first University -- Harper forms the second University -- Robert M. Hutchins and the Hutchins College -- The 1960s and 1970s -- The turmoil -- The problem of the college resolved -- Contingent faculty -- Conclusion -- Bibliography. Conclusion : Governing boards -- Presidents -- Faculty self-empowerment -- Curricular policy -- Contingent faculty -- Leadership rules of thumb -- Professional associations -- Larger governance associations -- Applying the theory -- In sum -- Bibliography. Major internet sources -- Institutional reports -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at destroying faculty governance organizations; to demonstrate the value of the theory of human social organizations; and to enable universities to become more effective in generating the intellectual advances we must make in order to solve the current global crisis of sustainability and political instability. Political democracy depends on an educated public, and academic democracy is integral to producing such knowledge Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 31, 2018) Subject Universities and colleges -- United States -- Administration. Teacher participation in administration -- United States -- Case studies Political anthropology -- United States Political stability -- United States Economics -- Sociological aspects. Educational sociology. Education and state. Industrial sociology. School management and organization. Social sciences. social sciences. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Social sciences School management and organization Industrial sociology Educational sociology Education and state Economics -- Sociological aspects Universities and colleges -- Administration Teacher participation in administration Political anthropology Political stability United States Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9783319925882 3319925881

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