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Article: Shared governance: democracy is not an educational idea.
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- March 1, 2007
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No one should presume to tell a college or university what its governance structure should be. In fact, there's no general model of governance, shared or otherwise, that can be replicated from place to place. Each institution is differently situated with respect to its history and mission; its size; the number and nature of its programs; its relationship to local, state, and national governments; its legal obligations and attendant dangers; its mechanisms of funding; and so on.
Even something as apparently extraneous as the number of buildings and rooms on a campus can affect, and perhaps undermine, a grand attempt at governance reform. If revised regulations call ...