Run It Like a Business? Really?
« Let’s stop trashing academic governance while exalting corporate governance as perfect. There’s a need for governance reform in many different kinds of businesses — for-profit and not-for-profit, academic and commercial — and that need often coalesces around the same issues: innovation, speed to market, inclusion of those affected, ethics.
There’s a lot to be said for the wisdom of the group, whether a board meeting in full session — not in one-off emails or phone calls about vitally important decisions — or academic committees vetting the latest great idea about new programs or technologies. In higher education we call this « shared governance, » but it’s not really just an academic notion. In fact, some of the best boards and companies in America honor exactly the same idea that the people affected by decisions should have some say in them.
Thomas Jefferson had something to say about that idea. He called it democracy — the basis for our most fundamental principles of governance ».
Gouvernance | Jacques Grisé 