University Governance, Management and the Academic Profession : Transformations and Challenges

This volume investigates governance and management of higher education through the lens of the academic profession. Drawing on data from the Academic Profession in the Knowledge-based Society project, an international collaborative research study involving the administration of a common survey to faculty in more than twenty countries, this volume explores important issues of governance and management in relation to, and frequently from the perspective of, the academic profession. It analyzes the complex inter-relationships and intersections between decision processes and structures at both the system and institutional levels and the experiences and perceptions of the academics who play a central role in fulfilling the mission of higher education. Theoretical chapters review key concepts that have grounded the analysis of external (system-level) and internal (institution-level) governance, while the core chapters provide original empirical research, many involving comparative studies, exploring key challenges such as managerialism, gender, shifts in faculty perceptions of influence, and the importance of communication and institutional leadership.

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Liudvika Leišytė is Professor of Higher Education and Deputy Director at the Center for Higher Education at the Technical University Dortmund, Germany. She is the recipient of the EURAM Strategic Management division Most Inspiring paper award 2023, TU Dortmund Internationalisation in Research award 2023, and 2018 Emerald Literati Award. She has published more than 120 papers in various scholarly journals and edited books. Professor Leišytė focuses on governance of higher education, changing academic work, evaluation, and organizational transformation in the context of higher education and research reforms. She is the author of six books on reforms of higher education, governance of higher education, organizational change and academic work in universities. She has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Higher Education, the Higher Education and Research handbook, and the Managing Academics Handbooks. She also published journal articles in renowned journals, such as Higher Education, Studies in Higher Education, Higher Education Policy, Public Administration, Public Management, Science and Public Policy, Minerva, and Learning Organisation. She has been a member of the prestigious Academy of Europe - Academia Europaea since 2023. She is also an advisory board member of the Lithuanian Agency for Quality Assurance and the German Lower Saxony Higher Education Accreditation Agency.

Mónica Marquina is Professor of Comparative Education and Educational Policy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. She is an Independent Researcher of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET) working at Universidad de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), where she also teaches several graduate courses. Her research interests include higher education governance and management, the academic profession, and quality assurance of institutions and programs. She is co-editor of the Latin American Journal of Comparative Education (RELEC) and member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Higher Education. She is also a board member of the National Commission of University Evaluation and Accreditation.

Glen A. Jones is Professor of Higher Education and former dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada. He holds the Ontario Research Chair in Postsecondary Education Policy and Measurement and he is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Canadian and International Higher Education. He is the author of more than 150 papers in the field of higher education. His research and teaching interests focus on higher education policy, governance and academic work. His recent books include Internationalization and the Academic Profession: Comparative Perspectives (2023), University Governance in Canada: Navigating Complexity (2022), Universities and the Knowledge Society: The Nexus of National Systems of Innovation and Higher Education (2021), International Education as Public Policy in Canada (2020), and Professorial Pathways: Academic Careers in a Global Perspective (2019).