Re–Balancing Modern Concepts of University Governance

Abstract

The paper considers the corporate–dominated and the academic–dominated forms of university governance, and the extent to which the position of these models has fluctuated over time. It argues that it is now time to move back to the concept of ‘shared governance’, but that this requires some reform of academic decision–making and that the corporate and the academic sides need to create machinery to realise effectively their respective contributions to university governance.