Introduction of Managerialism into University Administration: Erosion of the Collegial Model, Shared Governance, and Academic Tenure

Iman Rabah

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Iman Rabah

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university management systems; academic freedom; collegial model, shared governance, academic tenure, business management

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the erosion of traditional management systems in universities including collegiality, academic freedom, shared governance, and academic tenure and to illustrate how those unique features of higher education were substituted by new management concepts like productivity, revenues, employment flexibility, moderate evaluation of students, pedagogical issues and many others. This paper identifies the characteristics of traditional management university systems, then and based on secondary data illustrates the changes in the higher education context, which were caused by the increase in the number of students and the decrease of public funds that had a great impact on the management systems of the university and led to the erosion of the collegial model including the loss of some if not a large part of academic freedom, professional autonomy, and academic tenure in many cases.

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Introduction of Managerialism into University Administration: Erosion of the Collegial Model, Shared Governance, and Academic Tenure. (2015). Global Journal of Management and Business Research, 15(A12), 25-35. https://journalofbusiness.org/index.php/GJMBR/article/view/1847

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