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James Michael DiLoreto-Hill – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Within institutions of higher education, shared governance is an essential component to a healthy functionality. Among the many stakeholders at these institutions, students are the largest in number and hold primacy. Participation in student governance establishes a sense of shared ownership over their communities while also providing a unique…
Descriptors: Student Government, College Administration, Universities, Agenda Setting
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Meeuwissen, Stephanie N. E.; Spruijt, Annemarie; van Veen, Jeroen W.; de Goeij, Anton F. P. M. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2019
Student participation in governance of education is of growing interest. However, it remains unclear what factors render this participation in institutional governance a success or a failure. Another question is: what are the perceived benefits for schools and students? We empirically explored experiences and perspectives of student…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Veterinary Medical Education, Medical Education, Medical Students
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Luescher, Thierry M. – Perspectives in Education, 2009
The racial desegregation of the student bodies of historically white universities in South Africa has had significant political implications for student politics and university governance. I discuss two key moments in the governance history of the University of Cape Town (UCT) critically. The first involves the experience of racial parallelism in…
Descriptors: College Students, Race, Racial Integration, Racial Segregation
Cox, Caroline; Marks, John – Universities Quarterly, 1975
Discusses student representation in academic government with particular reference to the academic boards of the 30 designated polytechnics in England and Wales. In addition to discussing underlying principles of student representation, the article gives data for polytechnic university senates. (Author/PG)
Descriptors: College Administration, Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education
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Creamer, Don – Peabody Journal of Education, 1975
Descriptors: College Administration, Governance, Student Government, Student Leadership
Miller, Michael T., Ed.; Nadler, Daniel P., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
Colleges and universities face a variety of challenges in meeting the needs of students, and one of the greatest is their ability to respond to student needs while protecting institutional and academic integrity. For those working with students, a primary example of this challenge is the involvement of students in shared decision-making, a process…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Policy Formation, Student Participation, Governance
Francis, Robert M. – 1979
A survey of 50 randomly selected, full-time, day students at Herkimer County Community College, New York, was conducted to identify those areas of college governance that students felt they should be involved in and to determine the percentage of students who actually participated in student government. The students were asked to indicate: (1)…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Decision Making
Martens, Freda R. H. – 1985
A discussion is provided of the state and local components of the governance structure of the community colleges of the State University of New York (SUNY). First, a historical overview is presented of the legal foundations of the existing combination of SUNY and local community college governance, starting with the 1948 legislative actions that…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Governing Councils, Community Colleges, Governance
Bass, Donald G.; Cowgill, Sallie – 1975
This practicum presents a review of the literature pertaining to student participation in college governance and describes a study conducted to determine student perceptions of governance at College of the Mainland (Texas). A questionnaire was administered to a sample of students who do not participate in student government and to a sample of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Decision Making, Governance, Information Dissemination
Lord, Judith A. – 1978
A two-part, in-class questionnaire was administered to 150 randomly selected Everett Community College (Washington) students in an effort to determine their attitudes toward college governance. Part I of the questionnaire asked students to indicate their desire for involvement in each of 30 college activities. Part II solicited information on the…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Governance, Liberal Arts