By: WDS PA
Your reference to hegemonic practices, where normalized practices are defined by the majority, help underscore the power structure determined by a small group of individuals. Previous historical eras...
View ArticleBy: James
Haven’t yet read the NAS’s report, but that video gave me the screaming fantods. The message seems to be (1) that research universities are a precious resource, (2) that they are endangered by...
View ArticleBy: Eric H Schmitz
No mention of the burgeoning GROSS cost (eg. $ expended per graduate) of higher education in the US? Is the current trend in the cost curve sustainable , under any model of governance? Moreover, should...
View ArticleBy: extraction economy | The Long Eighteenth
[...] for them to take over, extract the value, and discard. (And we should not neglect the role of state governors in promoting this kind of cronyism between university boards and the corporate [...]
View ArticleBy: James Simcoe
For more incisive coverage than is found in the local news sources named, please refer to one of two of our excellent, independent weeklies in Charlottesville, The Hook. They frequently are the place...
View ArticleBy: Dave Mazella
My favorite morally obtuse quote from the 6/17 WaPo article: “But governing boards are authorized to remove university presidents on their own authority. Anne Neal, president of the American Council of...
View ArticleBy: Shelly Darter
I do not know that much about research universitites, but it seems that if these types of universities are important for the well being of the U.S. why would the VoB want to cut more? Also, meeting of...
View ArticleBy: Joshua
I agree that issues at UVA have the potential to hurt all of higher education in the US. I’ve always believed that governance needs to include more voices that just a small group. I mostly feel this...
View ArticleBy: Watching your college implode. | Dr. StrangeCollege or, How I Learned to...
[...] On the Failure of Legacy Governance at the University of Virginia (globalhighered.wordpress.com) [...]
View ArticleBy: A CEO Who Wasn't
Has anyone noticed how a certain kind of leader precipitates a “crisis” and gins up an “emergency” in order to address long-term strategic problems? (Or promulgates an “emergency law,” like South...
View ArticleBy: Ricardo Gonzalez
I know research universities have a prestige label on them and they do great things for our economy and culture. So it is amazing to read this article to realize how governing boards make their...
View ArticleBy: H. Sughrue
Clearly this board has no clue what their jobs entail and seem to have forgotten what their duty is to the institution. In this day and age of trying to be as diverse as possible I just do not...
View ArticleBy: Josh Dwyer
I was surprised that their was only a 3% increase in tuition allocated for tuition. I would think that with how much tuition increases each year, more money would be budgeted for tuition.
View ArticleBy: ritchiemayes
University control and governance. Who determines presidential leadership in the twenty-first century? Governance’s impact and is impacted on multiple levels. The removal of a college president must...
View ArticleBy: GM Wade
I was amazed to see how virtually the entire Board of Visitors have made contributed to the campaigns of the Governor’s who appointed them. This is a prime example of what is so wrong with higher...
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