In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for knowledge production and dissemination, while responding to the expectations of governments, other stakeholders, and/or markets. That universities succeed in this quest is vital, not only for their own future as organizations but also for the benefit of current and future generations of students, stakeholders, and society at large. We sought to contribute to the understanding of how higher education institutions and systems rise to the challenge of achieving and sustaining relative institutional autonomy by conducting a comparative case study of the governance of six major universities in five provinces in Canada. This article presents our fi...
Canadian universities are considered by some in the public and private sector to be inefficient orga...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
The purpose of this study is to understand the apparent acquiescence of senior officials at Alberta’...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
Knowledge societies have expectations of universities, and it has been suggested that autonomy contr...
As with higher-education institutions around the world, British Columbia (BC) and Ontario are increa...
Examining legislative change between 1997 and 2013, and analyzing the governance of Manitoba’s post-...
In this paper we review the major historical developments in the evolution of Canadian university go...
Following the design of a similar study in 2000, the authors conducted a study of university senates...
Unlike the United States, the Canadian provinces have established public monopolies of degree-granti...
When the Carnegie Foundation was established in 1905, universities in Canada and Newfoundland were e...
This is a post-print of an article published in Tertiary Education and Management, 2002, copyright T...
peer reviewedProvincial governments retain an essentially unrestricted jurisdictional autonomy as re...
This article focuses on the scholarly literature of the last thirty (30) years on university governa...
This paper demonstrates how the choice of instrument facilitates acceptance of a new account...
Canadian universities are considered by some in the public and private sector to be inefficient orga...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
The purpose of this study is to understand the apparent acquiescence of senior officials at Alberta’...
In order to fulfill their missions, research universities must maintain conditions and capacity for ...
Knowledge societies have expectations of universities, and it has been suggested that autonomy contr...
As with higher-education institutions around the world, British Columbia (BC) and Ontario are increa...
Examining legislative change between 1997 and 2013, and analyzing the governance of Manitoba’s post-...
In this paper we review the major historical developments in the evolution of Canadian university go...
Following the design of a similar study in 2000, the authors conducted a study of university senates...
Unlike the United States, the Canadian provinces have established public monopolies of degree-granti...
When the Carnegie Foundation was established in 1905, universities in Canada and Newfoundland were e...
This is a post-print of an article published in Tertiary Education and Management, 2002, copyright T...
peer reviewedProvincial governments retain an essentially unrestricted jurisdictional autonomy as re...
This article focuses on the scholarly literature of the last thirty (30) years on university governa...
This paper demonstrates how the choice of instrument facilitates acceptance of a new account...
Canadian universities are considered by some in the public and private sector to be inefficient orga...
Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neo-liberalism into the univ...
The purpose of this study is to understand the apparent acquiescence of senior officials at Alberta’...