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Article: What ever happened to faculty governance?(From the Editors)
- Article from:
- Nursing Education Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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Since 1916, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has been concerned with meaningful participation of faculty in the governance of academic institutions. Forty years ago, in 1966, the AAUP issued a Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities, to delineate the "primary responsibility [of faculty] for such fundamental areas as curriculum, subject matter and methods of instruction, research, faculty status, and those aspects of student life which relate to the educational process" (1).
Beliefs about faculty ownership of the curriculum have been part of the culture of nursing education since the widespread movement of nursing education ...