Academic Governance of Colleges and Universities in the United States

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381132
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology of education
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Fukudome Hideto 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科(教育学部), 准教授 (70401643)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 大学ガバナンス / リーダーシップ / 素人支配 / 大学管理の専門職化 / 共同統治 / 大学ランキング / 学問の自由 / 大学の自治

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The university reform in Japan is moving toward flexible and collective policy-making in each institution through powerful leadership of university presidents. However, it has not been demonstrated that such a direction will lead to an improvement in the quality of universities -the main objective of the reform. In the United States, where extensive research and practice on university governance have been accumulated, higher education researches typically advocate the importance of dialogue and collaboration made possible by the participation of various stakeholders inside of each institution. In this research project, I defined three key concepts; executive boards controlled by laymen, professional administrators specializing in their positions, and shared governance through faculty participation. The project theoretically and empirically examined the governance at American universities, and considered appropriate university governance.

Free Research Field

高等教育研究