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Record Nr.

UNINA9910337717803321

Autore

Leaf Murray J

Titolo

An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy : The Community of Scholars in America / / by Murray J. Leaf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783319925882

3319925881

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 325 p. 6 illus.)

Disciplina

306.43

Soggetti

Educational sociology

Economics - Sociological aspects

School management and organization

Education and state

Industrial sociology

Sociology of Education

Economic Sociology

Organization and Leadership

Educational Policy and Politics

Sociology of Work

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Theory of Organizations -- Chapter 3: The University in America -- Chapter 4: The Attacks -- Chapter 5: Governing Boards and Faculty in Texas -- Chapter 6: Governing Boards and Faculty in California -- Chapter 7: UCLA and the University of California -- Chapter 8: UT Dallas -- Chapter 9: Reed College -- Chapter 10: The University of Chicago -- Chapter 11: Conclusion -- Appendix I: Major Internet Sources -- Appendix II: Institutional Reports.

Sommario/riassunto

This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help



mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at destroying faculty governance organizations; to demonstrate the value of the theory of human social organizations; and to enable universities to become more effective in generating the intellectual advances we must make in order to solve the current global crisis of sustainability and political instability. Political democracy depends on an educated public, and academic democracy is integral to producing such knowledge. .