Preface

State Structures for the Governance of Higher Education is a national research project concerning state governing structures for higher education. This project was conducted by The California Higher Education Policy Center with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts and The James Irvine Foundation. The purpose of the research is to better understand how states differ in the design of their governance structures, what difference in performance can be related to choice of governing structures, and how structure affects the strategies available to state policy makers with regard to the state's higher education system. For the purpose of this research, a state system of higher education includes public and private postsecondary institutions as well as the arrangements for regulating, coordinating and funding them.

The products of the study include nine different publications: seven case studies, this comparative study, and an annotated bibliography. The case studies provide separate summaries of higher education governance for the seven states in this project: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Texas. These reports were reviewed for accuracy by knowledgeable individuals within each state. Following the completion of the case study reports, a comparative study was developed to provide an interpretive synthesis of the data in the case studies. This annotated bibliography has been compiled to highlight relevant literature on governance in higher education, government, business, and K-12 education. This bibliography also includes several theoretical pieces that helped to frame the conceptual design of the research.

Throughout the project, the research team was guided by the advice of a National Advisory Committee comprised of 18 experts in higher education governance issues. We would like to thank each of the committee members for their assistance in this project (their names are listed in the Appendix to this bibliography). In addition, we wish to thank the following individuals for their assistance in reviewing drafts of the case studies: Kenneth Ashworth, William Barba, Joseph Burke, Raymond Cardozier, Patrick Dallet, Cameron Fincher, Edward Hines, David Leslie, Marvin Peterson, William Pickens, Stephen Portch, Jack Smart, and Richard Wagner.


Kathy Reeves Bracco
Senior Policy Analyst
he California Higher Education Policy Center

 

 

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