Higher ed news

Readings on shared governance

Data

Meeting highlights

Florida Higher Ed News

• 4/22  Baxley speaks with presidents

• 4/19  Bill revision means students can't sue profs

• 4/19  New alcohol policy could cost UAA $200k

• 4/19  Shands, UF diverge on records

• 4/6  UF weighs tuition increases

• 4/4  Alligator editorial on domestic partner benefits

• 4/4  UF colleges change ranks in US News survey

• 4/3  Low tuition not a benefit

• 3/25  Senate proposes tuition hike and decreased university budget

• 3/25  Florida demographics mean university changes

• 3/25  Board of Governors sets degree quotas

• 3/24  UF departments may be penalized for failure to meet "diversity goals"

• 3/24  UF argues academic freedom bill unnecessary

• 3/23  Capitol bill aims to control leftist professors

• 3/23  UF, lawmakers debate tuition

• New ad blitz to promote UF

• March 22 Board of Trustees agenda

• CJC professor Alexander among six chosen as teaching scholars

• Machen picks Cavenaugh for VP human resources

• Lawmakers define role in state univ system

• Trustees told UF needs an identity

• Faculty union safe

older Florida news stories

National Higher Ed News

• 4/15 Tom Sowell College admissions voodoo

• 4/11 John Leo: Baking up controversey

• posted 4/11  Liberal bias in the ivory tower  Boston Globe

• posted 4/6 Fish on intellectual diversity

• posted 4/6 Horowitz on intellectual diversity

• 3/25  New Houston provost dedicated to shared gov

• 3/25  New senate leader at Auburn needs no intro

• 3/25  Faculty revolt brewing at Columbia

• 3/25  Voice for professors in campus planning

• 3/16  Faculty vote suggests lack of confidence in Harvard president

• 3/10_Is college degree worth the money?

• 3/10_CU President resigns Mercury News

• Courseware to replace professors inevitable CHE

• Donations to colleges rise nationally  CHE

older news stories

White papers

• On Collegiality by Mike Weigold

• History of western universities (thanks Les Smith) 

• Changing nature of academic deans (thanks Les Smith)

• Legal aspects of collegial governance

• Checklist for evaluating governance

• Indicators of sound governance

• Understanding effective faculty senates

• Traits of effective senates

• What makes shared governance work?

• Sunshine laws in higher education

• Conditions of collaboration: A list of deans' do's and don'ts

• Inextricably linked: Academic freedom and shared governance

• Why committees don't work: A structure for change

• Faculty governance and the future of academe

• The well-tempered search

• Good practice in tenure evaluation

• Faculty senates on the Web

• The academic profession's leadership role in shared governance. 

UF links

• Take the UF governance quiz! 

• Study up for the quiz: UF constitutional definitions

• UF Senate Steering Committee position on academic learning compacts

• UF News releases

• Board of Trustees resolution on UF Shared Governance

• UF Senate Resolution on Shared Governance

• College Governance: College of Education

• College Governance: College of Design and Planning

• College Governance: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• College Governance: Dentistry

• Office of the Provost: Handbook on Governance

• UF: Shared governance in various colleges 2001-2002

• Survey form used to assess college goverance

• UF Senate resource on university governance

• Presidential-Senate Joint Task Force on Governance

• Senate Task Force on Shared Governance

• Brief history of Faculty Governance at UF

• Board of Trustees Governance

Reports

• Challenges for Governance:  A National Report

• Governance Bibliography

• Faculty-Administrator Relationships as Integral to High-Performing Governance Systems

• UF deans draft memo on shared gov

• American colleges and universities

• UFCJC "Conversations"

• M. Fernandez presentation to Senate: Web  PPt

• UF Faculty Survey 2005

• UF Faculty Survey 2004

• UF Staff Survey 2005

• UF Fac Surv: Verbatims from CLAS

• Chronicle: Faculty salaries

• Oklahoma State National Survey 2001

• USNWR Best Colleges 2005

• USNWR: Best Grad Schools 2005

Stakeholders

• United Faculty of Florida

• UF Faculty Senate

• UF Academic Affairs

• UF Board of Trustees

Professional associations

• AAUP Statement on Governance

• ACEJMC Standards (see standard 1 on governance)

• United Faculty of Florida

AAUP Home Page

• Neil Rappaport Lecture 2001: "The Undermining of Faculty Governance and the Restructuring of the University"

• Neil Rappaport Lecture 2003: "Trust, Governance, and the Engaged Intellectual"

• Statement on procedural standards in the renewal or nonrenewal of faculty appointments

• On collegiality as a criterion for faculty evaluation

• Annual report on the economic status of the profession

SG: In favor

• Shared governance under siege CHE

  • Letters CHE

• Defending the tradition of shared governance  CHE

• Professors and Deans praise shared model  CHE

• Creating a broader model of shared governance CHE

• Trustees, faculty butt heads  CHE

• Tenure vital to academic freedom CHE

• Toward shared control of distance education  CHE

SG: bad idea

• Commission recommends strengthening administrator power  CHE

• Trustees groups calls for speedier decision making  CHE

• Wobbly seat at the table  CHE

• When consensus is not the answer UB

Other sites

• UT Higher Educ Web

• Higher Ed Resource Hub

• Institute for Higher Ed Policy

• University organization, governance, and competitiveness (you know the lead author)

• Getting behind the salary surge

• Meeting of Apr 11 (Terry Hynes, John Wright)

• Meeting of Apr 4 (Kim Tanzer)

• Meeting of Mar 28

• Meeting of Mar 21

• Meeting of Mar 14

• Meeting of Mar 7

• Meeting of Feb 21

• Meeting of Feb 14

College documents

• Committees 2005-2006 NEW

• Constitution: CJC

• Strategic Plan: CJC

• Response to UF strategic plan: CJC

• College Self_evaluation form 2005

• CJC College governance page

College news

• Administrative Council

• Open Line 3/7

• Open Line 2/7

• Open Line 1/10

Spring 05 Communigator

• Fall 04 Communigator

• Spr 04 Communigator

College Memos

• Hynes 3/10 Time to tenure

• Hynes 2/21 Self evaluations

• Hynes 1/22 Shared gov committee charge

For Faculty

• Faculty Handbook

• UF Constitution

• UF Constitution: proposed article 1 on governance

• UF Constitution: proposed article III on defining faculty

• University Committees

• University Rules

• University Parking

• Travel rules

News important to UF faculty:

• Delta Airlines in trouble

• Brandeis:  Website, Handbook,

• Brown:  Website, Handbook, Governance

• CIT:  Website, Handbook

• Carnegie Melon: Website, Handbook. Governance.

• Case Western Reserve University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Columbia University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Cornell University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Duke University: Website. Handbook.

• Emory University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Harvard University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Indiana University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Iowa State University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• The Johns Hopkins University: Website.  Handbook.

•  MIT: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• McGill University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Michigan State University: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• NYU: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• Northwestern University: Website. Handbook.  Governance.

• Ohio State University: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• Penn State University:  Website. Handbook. 

• Princeton University: Website.  Handbook.  Governance. 

• Purdue University: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• Rice University: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• Rutgers, The State University of NJ: Website.

• Stanford University: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• Stony Brook University: Website.   Governance.

• Syracuse University: Website. 

• Texas A&M University: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• Tulane University: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• University of Arizona.  Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York: Website.   Governance.

• University of California, Berkeley: Website. Handbook.  Governance.

• UCLA: Website.  Handbook. 

• University of California, Davis:  Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of California, Irvine: Website. 

• University of California, San Diego: Website.

• University of California, Santa Barbara: Website. Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Chicago: Website.  Handbook. 

•  University of Colorado at Boulder: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Website. Handbook. Governance.

• University of Iowa: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Kansas: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Maryland, College Park. Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Michigan: Website. Handbook.

•  Governance.

• University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Website. Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Missouri-Columbia: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Nebraska Lincoln: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• University of Oregon: Website. Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Pennsylvania: Website.

• University of Pittsburgh: Website. 

• University of Rochester: Website.  Handbook. 

• University of Southern California: Website.  Handbook. Governance

• University of Texas at Austin: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Toronto: Website.  Handbook. 

• University of Virginia: Website.  Handbook.  Governance.

• University of Washington: Website.  Handbook. Governance.

• University of Wisconsin-Madison: Webpage.  Handbook.  Governance.

• Vanderbilt University: Webpage. 

•  Washington University in St. Louis: Webpage.  Handbook. 

• Yale University: Webpage.  Handbook.  Governance.