1. The End of Shared Governance: Looking Ahead or Looking Back (Robert Birnbaum). Diminishing the faculty role in governance is likely to result in a decrease of institutional effectiveness.

2. Do Governance Structures Matter? (Gabriel E. Kaplan).
There are few significant relationships between how governance organizes and vests authority, on the one hand, and outcomes, on the other.

3. What Is More Important to Effective Governance: Relationships, Trust, and Leadership, or Structures and Formal Processes? (Adrianna Kezar).
Colleges and universities can build effective governance by focusing on leadership, trust, and relationships rather than on structures and processes.

4. The State and Higher Education: An Essential Partnership (Paul E. Lingenfelter).
Structural changes and improvements in governance are needed to ensure that the next generation has the opportunity for an affordable, ­high-quality education.

5. Disjointed Governance in University Centers and Institutes (William Mallon).
There are structures, processes, and participants that infringe on how traditional governance works and play a role in institutional decision making.

6. A Conceptual Framework of Faculty Trust and Participation in Governance (Myron L. Pope).
To facilitate the formation of an organizational culture that supports effective governance, trust needs to become a serious topic of inquiry in research pertaining to universities.

7. A Cultural Perspective on Communication and Governance (William G. Tierney, James T. Minor).
Communicative processes are central to organizational effectiveness and provide a means from which to improve governance.

8. Exploring Current Issues on Shared Governance (Vicente M. Lechuga).
Current literature on shared governance provides a greater understanding of the critical issues relating to its future.

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