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Kane, Kevin; Holler, Jacqueline – Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2021
This investigative report found that a "history of failed governance" at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) contributed to challenges around academic freedom raised by former PWIAS Director Philippe Tortell when he resigned in 2018. Tortell alleged that the Board of Trustees of the PWIAS and the University of British…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Freedom, College Administration, Governance
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Lougheed, Patrick; Pidgeon, Michelle – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2016
In Canada, only 44% of members of academic governance bodies at universities feel that their boards are effective decision-making bodies (Jones, Shanahan, & Goyan, 2004). In this study, we examined the views of senators at a British Columbia university regarding their senate's effectiveness in decision-making, including structures, processes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, College Administration, Leadership Effectiveness
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Rintoul, Heather M.; Goulais, Linda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2010
Competency in moral Literacy, like any other literacy develops through careful and continual practice (Herman, 2007). In this qualitative study we explore the vice principalship and the development of administrative moral literacy. Using a northern Ontario Canada case study, we recount how three secondary school vice principals further their own…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Competence, Middle Management
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Langlois, Lyse; Lapointe, Claire – Journal of Educational Administration, 2010
Purpose: In response to the growing need for educational leaders who possess ethical, critical and reflective qualities, a training program was developed based on ethics as a reflective critical capacity and on Starratt's three-dimensional model. This paper aims to describe the impact of the program on ethical decision making and on educational…
Descriptors: Expertise, Action Research, Interviews, Program Effectiveness
Ennest, Robert – Online Submission, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of Alberta's Principal Quality Practice Standard as a framework for the roles and responsibilities of school principals. Methodology: Three principals participated in the study, and each principal had more than 25 years of teaching and school administration experience. Each principal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes
Isherwood, Geoffrey B. – Education Canada, 1995
Moral choice for educational administrators involves using conventional democratic principles as well as postconventional actions grounded in principles valued by administrators that are not covered by conventional morality. Presents two case studies involving the application of democratic principles and the formation of independent judgment in…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrators, Conflict Resolution, Decision Making