As the tradition is strongly tested, a faculty senate leader, Stephen J. Silvia, and a former provost, Scott A. Bass, suggest nine keys to respectful collaboration. In the post-pandemic era, shared ...

The history of shared governance in universities is long and layered, rooted in medieval traditions and evolving through American higher education. The earliest universities, such as Bologna and Paris ...

The co-chairs of the University Senate student affairs committee expressed concerns over threats to shared governance in a Monday email to the Columbia community following an announcement from acting ...

In the evolving landscape of higher education, institutions are grappling with how to adapt their governance models to address new trends and technologies. The traditional balance of power and ...

A cademic freedom is about the freedom to choose: the freedom to research this problem and not that one, to consider or advance one argument in the classroom and to criticize another. But freedom of ...

The practice of shared governance — where faculty, staff, administrators, boards, and sometimes students share responsibility for decision-making and policy development — has long been considered a ...

T his past spring, Duke University administrators offered voluntary buyouts to faculty and staff to reduce expenses in anticipation of unprecedented federal funding cuts. A slew of other ...

In the immediate aftermath of the 1968 protests over the Vietnam War and a planned gymnasium in Morningside Park that rocked campus and resulted in over 700 arrests, Columbia formed its University ...

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global South Media and Think Tank Forum China-Africa Partnership Conference opened Thursday here to explore ways to strengthen cooperation, amplify the ...