@report {1311067, title = {Effective Academic Governance: Five Ingredients for CAOs and Faculty}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The COACHE research-practice partnership is designed to enact organizational\ change for the benefit of faculty and, by extension, the institution. But does every college{\textquoteright}s\ system of shared governance have what it takes to meet their own or, indeed, higher education{\textquoteright}s most pressing challenges? This white paper looks beyond the rhetoric toward a more differentiated understanding of the ingredients of effective academic governance. Ott and Mathews offer a five-factor framework grounded in the literature, developed from interviews, and, now, tested in a survey of thousands of faculty. The report concludes with advice for assessing and fostering the qualities of {\textquotedblleft}hard{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}soft{\textquotedblright} governance practices essential to sustainable change in the {\textquotedblleft}real world{\textquotedblright} decision-making of committees, assemblies, senates, councils, and unions.}, url = {https://coache.gse.harvard.edu/files/gse-coache/files/coache_effectiveacademicgovernance_2015.pdf}, author = {Maya Weilundemo Ott and Kiernan Mathews} }