Higher education
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2 days agoShould You Serve on the Board of Your Alma Mater?
Higher education is essential for the U.S. economy and requires significant institutional change to adapt to current challenges.
Shared governance is the great sacred cow of higher education. We all pay it constant lip service. Presidents are required to pay public homage to its principles. To say anything else is instant professional death. But is shared governance, the great third rail of our campus politics, the best way to think about university management? Or is it time for a new paradigm?
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