Restructuring State Higher Education Governance Patterns

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For the better part of half a century, states have sought to provide for a rational system of higher education through the mechanism of state-level and institutional boards, each uniquely empowered to be responsive to the issues and concerns in their state at the time that the governance pattern was adopted. However, as issues and concerns have changed, so has the formal relationship between the state-level entity and the colleges and universities. There have been shifts between governing and coordinating structures and between centralization and decentralization in both structural forms. State-level and institutional boards have been created, combined, replaced, and dissolved, as states have sought to improve governance. As noted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1976), the relationship between states and their higher education institutions has been dynamic and complex. [End Page 399]

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