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Effective Institutional Governance: Strategies for Shared Decision-Making

Explore imperatives for successful sharing in decision-making, address key issues facing governance in higher education, and discuss collaborative approaches among boards, presidents, and faculty members.

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Effective Institutional Governance: Strategies for Shared Decision-Making

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  1. INSTITUTIONAL GOVERNANCE ANDBOARD – FACULTY RELATIONS Association of Governing Boards 2010 National Conference Tom Longin, Moderator March 22, 2010 www.agb.org

  2. STRATEGIC BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES THE PRESIDENT

  3. GOVERNANCE INHIGHER EDUCATION Collectively making authoritative decisions about how to allocate scarce resources among competing interests and ensuring that decisions are legitimate because they are reached through participation and consultation rather than coercion / fiat.

  4. IMPERATIVES FOR SUCCESSFUL SHARING IN DECISION MAKING • Delegation of Authority Coupled with Accountability • Sharing of Authority Characterized by Full and Open Consultation with an Emphasis on Joint Endeavor, which Is Built on a High Degree of Trust and Mutual Respect … Facilitated by Good Process • Good Process Characterized by: • Early, Fair and Uniform Consultation • Free and Full Sharing of the Information Appropriate to the Issue • Advice is Rendered and Considered in Timely Fashion; Feedback Is Given in a Sensitive and Timely Manner • Final Decisions are Communicated to Parties Involved with Explanations Provided where Appropriate

  5. ISSUES FACING GOVERNANCE • Do current economic pressures and the changing higher education environment make shared governance obsolete? • In these challenging times, are governing boards essential or obsolete? • Are contemporary presidents / chancellors knowledgeable, skilled, bold, and visionary enough to lead our struggling institutions? If so, whose support do they most need to be effective? • Do presidents really want effective boards? • Do governing boards and presidents really want faculty to be effective participants in governance? • Can informed, skilled and dedicated boards, presidents and faculty be effective collaborators in institutional governance? How might such collaboration best be achieved?

  6. EFFECTIVE BOARDS, PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP & ENGAGED FACULTY:“The Key to It All” • Can We Move From WHO HAS POWER to WHO CAN COLLABORATE in Setting Priorities, Providing Direction, Improving Learning and Solving Problems? • How Can We Best Engage THESE KEY PLAYERS in the Process of Change? • Can We Move From Our Separate Silos and the Current Managerial Paradigm to Collaborative Engagement of Board, President / Senior Leaders, and Faculty in Planning, Implementing and Monitoring the Educational and Fiscal Effectiveness of the Institution? • EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE: It’s Hard Work! Let’s Do It!

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