By Colleen Flaherty. AAUP investigation finds Vermont Law School violated shared governance norms when it suddenly stripped tenure from most of its faculty. More...
Redesigning IT Governance for Digital Transformation at North Carolina State University
When we began work on redesigning IT governance, our goal was to bring IT governance into alignment with the university’s mission. More...
Améliorer la gouvernance des politiques scolaires, de l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation
L'organisation territoriale des services déconcentrés de l'éducation nationale, de l'enseignement supérieur, de la recherche et de l'innovation a récemment évolué avec la création en 2016 de dix-sept régions académiques, dont neuf ont aujourd'hui un périmètre pluri-académique.
Après plus de deux ans de fonctionnement, il apparaît que si cette évolution a constitué une première étape utile, elle demande désormais à être approfondie pour mieux adapter l'action des deux ministères aux nouveaux périmètres régionaux, tout en améliorant, dans une logique de subsidiarité, le pilotage des politiques au plus près du terrain. Plus...
EDUCAUSE Podcast on Project Governance
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. EDUCAUSE Podcast on Project Governance
D'Arcy Norman links to this podcast by Lisa Kosanovich on project governance. The talks starts out pretty well. She describes administrivia, that sort of project management that drives us all nuts, as "a more reactive approach to problems that arise" and tracable to things like design problems "being resolved in a vacuum". Her four principles of project management seem sound to me: assigning roles and responsibilities, creating a change management and scope steward, setting out communication rules, and setting up schedule tools and principles. More...
Open data offers new potential to enhance governance of SOEs
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) sit at the centre of economic decision-making in many countries worldwide. They are responsible for driving forward major industries, delivering important services to citizens and managing large streams of public revenue. More...
Troubling Trends Towards Artificial Intelligence Governance
This is an age of artificial intelligence (AI) driven automation and autonomous machines. The increasing ubiquity and rapidly expanding potential of self-improving, self-replicating, autonomous intelligent machines has spurred a massive automation driven transformation of human ecosystems in cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS). More...
A Proposed Model AI Governance Framework
The PDPC presents the first edition of A Proposed Model AI Governance Framework (Model Framework) – an accountability-based framework to help chart the language and frame the discussions around harnessing AI in a responsible way. More...
Six Steps for a Successful Web Governance Strategy
Decentralizing your website content contribution often means more content and demand for priority from content creators. Creating a web governance strategy is key to delivering an effective website experience for web visitors. More...
Putting Shared Governance to Work
Committees don’t have the best reputation. It’s quite common to hear higher ed professionals (including me) bemoaning the perceived lack of pace, inefficient decision-making, diluted outcomes, unqualified opinions or plenty of other critiques. More...
Presidential Spouses Behaving Badly
By Marjorie Valbrun. Wisconsin Whitewater is latest university to find a presidential spouse can become a campus liability. Even on campuses without controversies, partners face heightened scrutiny. More...