Flaws in higher education governance are putting the U of U at risk

The governance of colleges and universities has been an enduring source of controversy. At one time or another in the long history of higher education, paramount powers of governance have been claimed by students, faculty, clergy, administrators, boards of regents or trustees, and one or another branch or agency of one or another government. The University of Utah has lived through many of these governance claims and the debates they have generated since its founding. The most dramatic confrontation over governance powers occurred in 1915 when a controversy over tenure standards between the faculty, the administration and the community resulted in one third of the University of Utah faculty resigning.