OT university governance
Most true models of faculty governance went out the window long ago - even at small private liberal arts colleges. You have to go back to the medieval University of Bologna in Italy to find a situation where students hired and fired faculty :-).
I"m not talking about whether students are management ... and I can think of schools right here in town where the faculty selects the dean and can dismiss him/her. At some level of managerial involvement, faculty are management.
The degree of faculty's power is probably related strongly to the institution's finances. A university answerable to government oversight probably doesn't have a particularly strong faculty governance. A school that is funded by professor-obtained grant money, alumni donations, and the like is probably a better candidate for having strong faculty governance. I haven't conducted a survey of college faculty governance, but I am aware there is significant variation from my own experience, and that some universities' faculty have as much power as K-12 teachers (i.e., nil).
Take care,
--Tex.
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