MANAGEMENT

Governance of Colleges and Universities in America

Governance of Colleges and Universities in America

Introduction

An antecedent of CA is in the founding document of the Programme ma Teacher Improvement (PROMEP), published in 1996, whose objective tive is to define the profile and desirable working environment of teachers public higher education system of Mexico, also the basis for perform the processing required in the conditions and thus, the quality of higher education. In our country, CAaparecen first how- do the desirable attributes listed in the teacher training including com- plete (PhD), appropriate experience, balanced distribution of their time among the various academic tasks, covering the courses for teachers adequate full-time (CT) and subject-to finally include a requirement that each institution has an articulated CA and linked together side with the outside. Similar to the referenced work of Gil et al., Along the said work will CA repeating the word as a synonym of all teachers assigned to dependence unspecified university or its organizational character group, their form of integration, let alone its articulation with other parts of the organization and hierarchical position. For example, the composition desirable CA is defined in relation to the size of campus students, especially cificando different teachers with different mixtures of time commitment (time- working full time, part time and subject) as the nature of the program study. At another point he states that a unit of higher education (DES) a higher education institution (HEI) is responsible for one or more study programs (PE) and comprises a well-defined CA (emphasis ours), concludes that the CA of a DES is considered consisting of teachers assigned to the unit to develop their teaching of regularly and teachers or full-time investigators of another de- pendency of the same IES (Millet, 1980).

These definitions do not clearly indicate on the advantage of organizing in CA, are so ambiguous as well say that a CA is a group of academics. In search of a better accuracy found another definition: "are not part of a collegial body "and" not organic structures (Miller & Nadler, 2006).

Organizational options and academic authority

To assess the importance and justification of including CA in structuring university is forced from Clark (1983), one of the most rec- nocidos university students of organizational phenomenon. According to this author, the horizontal differentiation in a university is based in so-called traditional disciplines. The resulting clusters of this form of division of labor are the faculties, schools or colleges, care- two of the teaching profession, like law or the administration of companies, or some basic discipline, such as the humanities or sciences natural. Within each faculty chairs called emerge

Another option for organizing work are divisions, spanning an area knowledge, such as biology, social sciences, etc. arise inside departments, which include belonging to a particular specialty a profession (right institutional or internal medicine) or are conformational two entire disciplines like physics or history.

The type of academic authority as Clark used at the departmental level is the college, while the level of teaching is a personalistic authority or ...