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Academic boards : less intellectual and more academic capital in higher education governance?

Rowlands, Julie 2011, Academic boards : less intellectual and more academic capital in higher education governance?, Studies in higher education, iFirst Article, pp. 1-16.

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Title Academic boards : less intellectual and more academic capital in higher education governance?
Author(s) Rowlands, Julie
Journal name Studies in higher education
Season iFirst Article
Start page 1
End page 16
Total pages 17
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication Oxon, England
Publication date 2011-10-24
ISSN 0307-5079
1470-174X
Keyword(s) governance
organisational change
Bourdieu
management
quality
Summary A historically informed analysis of the academic board or senate in Australian universities, and in the wider higher education environment, particularly the UK, indicates that the role and function of academic boards has fundamentally changed in the past 30 years. Within the context of universities being repositioned to serve global knowledge economies, a comparison between contemporary university governance structures and those from the 1960s and the 1990s provides evidence of a significant diminution of the power and status of boards relative to executive management, and a heightened focus on the functions of academic quality assurance. As Bourdieu would suggest, academic boards continue to hold more symbolic than real power, due to the rise of academic rather than intellectual capital. Consequently, academic boards have become a key site of struggle over the role and function of the multinational corporate university and academic work.
Language eng
Field of Research 130103 Higher Education
Socio Economic Objective 970113 Expanding Knowledge in Education
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
HERDC collection year 2011
Copyright notice ©2011, Society for Research into Higher Education
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30039355

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Education
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