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Faculty Associations Confront Accountability Governance in Ontario Universities

Canadian journal of higher education (1975), 2018-12, Vol.48 (3), p.165-181 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Faculty Associations Confront Accountability Governance in Ontario Universities
Author: Webber, Michelle ; Butovsky, Jonah
Subjects: Academic freedom ; Accountability ; Activism ; Analysis ; Annual reports ; Beliefs, opinions and attitudes ; Budgeting ; Budgets ; Collective Bargaining ; College Administration ; College Faculty ; Colleges & universities ; Commercialization ; Computer Assisted Instruction ; Contracts ; Education policy ; Educational accountability ; Educational Assessment ; Educational Change ; Educational Policy ; Educational Quality ; Educational research ; Efficiency ; Faculty Promotion ; Foreign Countries ; Funding ; Governance ; Government (Administrative Body) ; Higher education ; Institutional Autonomy ; Knowledge Economy ; Liberalism ; Management ; Neoliberalism ; Political aspects ; Political Attitudes ; Politics ; Politics of Education ; Professional Autonomy ; Program Evaluation ; Public sector ; Quality ; Quality Assurance ; Quality Control ; R&D ; Radicalism ; Research & development ; Researchers ; Retrenchment ; Secondary Education ; Teacher Associations ; Teachers' unions ; Teaching ; Tenure ; Unionization ; Unions ; Universities ; University faculty
Is Part Of: Canadian journal of higher education (1975), 2018-12, Vol.48 (3), p.165-181
Description: Much literature focusing on the academy is concerned with the spread of neoliberalism into the university sector. We argue that universities in Canada are operating in an era of "accountability governance," with ideologies, discourses, and practices centred on quality, accountability, and efficiency. We explore the interplay between accountability governance as a regime of power and the work of faculty associations, especially as they strive to preserve faculty members' professional autonomy and control over their academic work. Using in-depth qualitative interviews with executive members of several Ontario university faculty associations, we explore themes of neo-liberalization and corporatization of the university, shrinking faculty budgets, program reviews, and strategic mandates. While opportunities for action and resistance for faculty unions arise, particularly at the level of senate, more militancy and radicalism are not favoured by many members, as political action is often seen as "unprofessional."
Publisher: Toronto: The Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0316-1218
EISSN: 2293-6602
DOI: 10.47678/cjhe.v48i3.188107
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Faculty Associations Confront Accountability Governance in Ontario Universities

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