Higher Education Governance Balancing Institutional and Market Influences

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dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Richard C.en
dc.contributor.authorReeves Bracco, Kathyen
dc.contributor.authorCallan, Patrick M.en
dc.contributor.authorFinney, Joni E.en
dc.date.accessed2017-10-23en
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-17T20:37:57Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-17T20:37:57Zen
dc.date.issued1998-11-01en
dc.description.abstractState policy leaders now face—or soon will encounter—critical decisions about their colleges and universities for two reasons: First, the success of American colleges and universities over the last half-century has given rise to high societal expectations. Second, unprecedented challenges to higher education are emerging from substantial demographic, technological, economic, and organizational transformations in our society. In this context, the paper aims to trace and summarize the complexity of general patterns in higher education governance, to describe the structural relationships that deeply affect institutional efficacy, and therefore must inform higher educational policy decisions. The authors claim that state policy strikes a balance—sometimes explicitly, sometimes by default—between the influence of the market (defined broadly as forces external to state government and higher education) and the influence of systems or institutions of higher education. An effective balance within and across three policy levels—the macro state policy environment, system design, and practical work processes — promotes the general welfare. The goal of state policy, then, is to exercise state authority to achieve public priorities by balancing, within and across complex policy levels, the influence of academic institutions and the influence of the market, broadly defined.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe National Center for Public Policy and Higher Educationen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://www.highereducation.org/reports/governance/governance.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/83314en
dc.languageEnglishen
dc.publisherThe National Center for Public Policy and Higher Educationen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectHigher education governanceen
dc.subjecthigher education systemen
dc.subjectuniversities and collegesen
dc.titleHigher Education Governance Balancing Institutional and Market Influencesen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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