Keywords
shared governance, best practices, organizational citizenship behavior, campus life collaborations, perspective, decision-making
Abstract
Colleges and universities have historically provided faculty members access to sharing authority, and this has been manifest in recent decades through the creation and use of a formal body called a faculty senate. These formal bodies have at times been highly effective at articulating faculty member interests, yet there are few formal definitions or boundaries concerning what areas senates are most appropriately engaged. College presidents similarly recognize that senates have a role in institutional decision-making, yet often lack a clear understanding of where and how they should be engaged. The current study explored faculty senate leader and college president perceptions of boundaries of senate collaboration in decision-making. Survey respondents identified a high level of agreement that faculty senates should be engaged in academic collaboration with the president, but there was less agreement concerning collaboration in areas of campus life and work-life.
Recommended Citation
Nadler, D. P., Miller, M. T., Hamza, E. A., & Gearhart, G. D. (2019). Faculty Senates and College Presidents: Perspectives on Collaborations. Journal of Research on the College President, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.54119/jrcp.2019.307
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