Board Of Trustees
The Senate
Traditional Perspectives
Institutional Perspectives
Governance and
Student Affairs
100
According to the example in the book, this is how often a Board of Trustees meet.
What is once per month?
100
Comprised of faculty members, students, and upper level administration to discuss business pertaining to the university as a whole and its relation to academic affairs
What is the Senate?
100
View that asserts that governance is a system of decision making comprised of processes and structures, organized around the functions of executive action, management and administration, core operations, administrative support, and services.
What is Traditional View?
100
The percentage of community college faculty that are considered part time.
What is 67%?
100
The operative term for the context that universities and colleges are reflecting more and more of valuing the private good and individual achievement, and diminishes the worth of the public good.
What is neoliberal?
200
The purpose of a Board of Trustees meeting is this.
What is a forum for formal and public accountability?
200
According the text, these are the core operators of the institution, and without them the institution cannot fulfill its public expectations and legal mandate.
What is the faculty?
200
Bureaucracy, collegium, political arena, and organized anarchy.
What are models of governance within Traditional Perspective?
200
This type of institution allows adults that do not need to possess particular academic qualifications to attend the institution.
What is open access institution?
200
The reason students’ interests and their development is being underserved in the newer models of economical governance.
What is privatization?
300
According to the example in the book, this is one matter that must be addressed by the board in a closed session.
What are Personnel Matters?
300
According to the text, these are items that a Faculty Senate may review.
Acceptable Answers: What is Discipline of Faculty Member? What is Major contracts with the University? What is Merit review of faculty? Also acceptable, any issues dealing with course credit.
300
“Machine” which represents hierarchical and rigid management of the organization, “culture” which represents ideological grounding for action, “political system” which represents collective bargaining, and “loosely coupled system” which represents ambiguity in all facets of the organization.
What are the metaphors of organization?
300
The type of legal decision making system that has a governing board and administration for financial and administrative matters and a faculty dominated senate for educational matters.
What is Bicameral
300
How the seven principles of a more traditional student affairs practice connect to institutional governance.
Acceptable Answers: How is institutional action a means for student learning being an end? How does institutional governance mediate student affairs practices?
400
Examples of issues that the board would discuss and decide on.
Acceptable Answers: What is Setting Tuition Fees? What is Establishment of Programs? What is Hiring and Firing of Personnel?
400
According to Robert Rirnbaum, this is the reason a Faculty Senate has value.
What is to give meaning to institutional members and actions of those members?
400
This example made light of the challenges universities face when they try to be autonomous instead of adopting a form of outside governance, thus decreasing the amount of influence student services have on students.
What is the creation of partnerships with private businesses, sponsored research, and outsourcing of university jobs?
400
The three attributes largely absent from the role of faculty in community colleges.
What is academic freedom, tenure, and professional autonomy
400
The book says this needs to happen for the reformation of university and college governance
What is refocusing on community building rather than economic exchange?