An Anthropology of Academic Governance and Institutional Democracy

This anthropological study of university governance organizations has four main purposes. It aims to describe the principles of effective faculty governance organizations and shared governance; to help mobilize opposition to a large and extremely well-funded system of political attacks aimed at destroying faculty governance organizations; to demonstrate the value of the theory of human social organizations; and to enable universities to become more effective in generating the intellectual advances we must make in order to solve the current global crisis of sustainability and political instability. Political democracy depends on an educated public, and academic democracy is integral to producing such knowledge.  

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Theory of Organizations.- Chapter 3: The University in America.- Chapter 4: The Attacks.- Chapter 5: Governing Boards and Faculty in Texas.- Chapter 6: Governing Boards and Faculty in California.- Chapter 7: UCLA and the University of California.- Chapter 8: UT Dallas.- Chapter 9: Reed College.- Chapter 10: The University of Chicago.- Chapter 11: Conclusion.- Appendix I: Major Internet Sources.- Appendix II: Institutional Reports.