February 12, 1999

Centralizing Governance Isn't Simply Wrong; It's Bad Business, Too

By JAMES T. RICHARDSON

Colleges and universities abroad that have the opportunity to throw off ideology-ridden bureaucracies recognize the value of America's tradition of shared governance in higher education. So why is it that our own Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges is blind to that value?

One wonders whether obliviousness, indifference, or hostility is responsible for the association's recent

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