Essay - Tensions and Dilemmas Part 1: We Often Speak of Faculty...

tensions and dilemmas

***** 1: We often speak of faculty loyalty to their discipline ***** ***** their "academic guild..."

Can faculty have loyalty to their "guild" as well as to their employing college or university or will there always be a fundamental tension?

It is easy ***** imagine a num*****r of scenarios where ***** might be a ***** tension *****tween a faculty department and university's policy as a whole. Imagine that a college wishes to limit its liberal arts requirements and instead focus on more technical preparation for its students—the humanities ***** will be unhappy. ***** a college that tries to limit student freedom of speech on campus, which faculty in the English and History Departments largely oppose, given this will create a restrictive environment ********** feel may hamper their ability to teach effectively. Imagine conflicts of funding between the sciences and the humanities—or professors that feel they are required ***** teach too many introductory undergraduate courses, rather than focus on their research activities.

Ideally, there would be no tensions of course—but given the holistic, financial needs of an academic institution, ***** ***** more *****ed nature of individual departments, conflict seems inevitable. Also, universities often feel a need to market their schooling as a 'br*****nd' to *****s, and wish ***** build on aspects of their ***** generalized ***** educati*****. Undergraduates are a school's core source ***** revenue, while dep*****rtments may feel more strongly about the ********** of their graduate students, given that they ***** have closer relationships with graduate students, ***** these students act as assistants in their courses.

Part 2: How does shared governance imp***** decision making at an institution of higher education? Discuss ***** *****in the context ***** what you know regarding governance, organized anarchy, bicameral institutions, and dualism of control.

Even the United States has a ***** legislature in the ********** of the U.S. House of Representative ***** ***** Senate. The Constitution maintains a balance of power *****tween the different branches of government. This often creates an impasse, or *****g*****ized anarchy, when ***** are different parties in control of ***** legislative bodies, or the legislature and the executive branch ***** a dualistic system ***** control. As university decision-***** bodies encompass a wide *****rray of ***** interest groups, from administrators, to students, to faculty, to alumni, as ***** as undergraduate and graduate schools ***** may be at war for funding and support, it would seem that impasses are ***** likely than