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11 - Higher Education Governance in North America

from Part III - Geographies of Governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2020

By
Giliberto Capano  and
Jun Jie Woo
Edited by
Giliberto Capano  and
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Giliberto Capano
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong
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Summary

This chapter is focused on describing how systemic governance in higher education has changed in the two Northern American federal countries. To grasp the characteristics of governance and accountability in the higher education systems of Canada and the USA, the chapter shed lights on the systemic characteristics of such systems (the types of institutions are distinguished by their respective missions and ownership), on the role of and eventual changes to the state/provincial and federal governments across time, on the impact on New Public Management in the activities of the systems, and, finally, on the characteristics and roles of policy networks. By focusing on these four dimensions, it is possible to better describe and understand how systemic governance works in the USA and Canada, and how the countries have been changing by remaining quite different each other.

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higher education governanceCanadaUnited StatesfederalismNew Public Managementpolicy networks
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Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
Comparative Perspectives
 , pp. 301 - 332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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