Universities losing ability to govern themselves through collegial leadership
A new study identifies two forces eroding shared decision-making in universities—colonization by external pressures and internal degradation of academic values—that threaten institutional autonomy and research quality. For institutional leaders and policymakers, this signals a structural crisis in how universities can self-regulate and maintain academic standards.
Originaltitel: The diminishing spaces for collegial work
<p> In this conceptual paper, we discuss how collegiality as a governing form in contemporary universities is challenged in its possibilities to influence organizational control over (and responsibility for) universities’ teaching and research. In particular, we discuss how contemporary organizational conditions, beyond mere formal structures, might limit the space within which collegiality finds its relevance and where these conditions undermine the very academic practice collegiality is set to serve. We suggest two different processes of 'decollegialization ' of higher education and research that – as we see them – jointly redefine collegiality as a governing form: colonization and adulteration.</p>