%0 Thesis %1 igbineweka_academic_1982 %A Igbineweka, Andrew Osabuohien %C Denton, TX %D 1982 %K ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION, Higher, POLITICAL PUBLIC SCIENCE, %T Academic governance: perceptions and preferences of administrators and faculty in a public and in a private university %X The problem with which this study is concerned is the determination of the attitudes toward academic governance of administrators and faculty in both a public and a private institution of higher education in Texas. Based on the problem, a Likert-type survey instrument was developed from the questionnaire provided by the North Texas State University Task Force on University Governance; 176 academic administrators and faculty responded (60.5 per cent). Because there were two independent groups (and two correlated samples) of the population to statistically treat in relation to many variables, the data findings are numerous. Based on data analyses, the following conclusions appear to be warranted. (1) Faculty believe there is too much control over academic governance in the hands of administrators and they believe certain areas (e.g., faculty appointments, budget apportionment decisions within an academic department) should be shared with the faculty; (2) It appears that academic administrators believe they control academic governance and they want to retain this control; (3) On the whole, there is more agreement (statistically) than disagreement with respect to the degree of control exerted by various actors on the academic governance of higher education at both the private and public institutions; (4) For the present condition, it appears that there are more (statistical) differences of opinion between the institutions than within the institutions; (5) It appears that the present conditions of academic governance do not fulfill the perceived ideal conditions in either the public or private institution although the attitudes toward academic governance appear to be more favorable in the private institution than in the public institution; (6) Judging by the mean total for each variable the perceptions of the respondents appear to indicate that the governance actors in the external domain or constituencies are weaker in their involvement with academic governance than the actors in the internal domain.

@phdthesis{igbineweka_academic_1982, abstract = {The problem with which this study is concerned is the determination of the attitudes toward academic governance of administrators and faculty in both a public and a private institution of higher education in Texas. Based on the problem, a Likert-type survey instrument was developed from the questionnaire provided by the North Texas State University Task Force on University Governance; 176 academic administrators and faculty responded (60.5 per cent). Because there were two independent groups (and two correlated samples) of the population to statistically treat in relation to many variables, the data findings are numerous. Based on data analyses, the following conclusions appear to be warranted. (1) Faculty believe there is too much control over academic governance in the hands of administrators and they believe certain areas (e.g., faculty appointments, budget apportionment decisions within an academic department) should be shared with the faculty; (2) It appears that academic administrators believe they control academic governance and they want to retain this control; (3) On the whole, there is more agreement (statistically) than disagreement with respect to the degree of control exerted by various actors on the academic governance of higher education at both the private and public institutions; (4) For the present condition, it appears that there are more (statistical) differences of opinion between the institutions than within the institutions; (5) It appears that the present conditions of academic governance do not fulfill the perceived ideal conditions in either the public or private institution although the attitudes toward academic governance appear to be more favorable in the private institution than in the public institution; (6) Judging by the mean total for each variable the perceptions of the respondents appear to indicate that the governance actors in the external domain or constituencies are weaker in their involvement with academic governance than the actors in the internal domain.}, added-at = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, address = {Denton, TX}, author = {Igbineweka, Andrew Osabuohien}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/235bedda591f24cddf0f7401ee6cf2e7f/prophe}, interhash = {41b719bb929712608e898868d6b1e1f8}, intrahash = {35bedda591f24cddf0f7401ee6cf2e7f}, keywords = {ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION, Higher, POLITICAL PUBLIC SCIENCE,}, school = {University of North Texas}, shorttitle = {Academic governance: perceptions and preferences of administrators and faculty in a public and in a private university}, timestamp = {2018-06-19T15:18:45.000+0200}, title = {Academic governance: perceptions and preferences of administrators and faculty in a public and in a private university}, type = {Doctoral {Dissertation}}, year = 1982 }