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(2019) An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The University of California appears to have the most effective system of shared governance in the United States. Its foundation is a clear delegation to the faculty senate of the concerns logically and historically central to the idea of a community of scholars and students. This chapter describes its origins in the "Berkeley Revolution" of 1923 and its specific instantiation at UCLA. It then describes how the UCLA senate, working with the administration, met the challenges of the 1960s and 1970s in ways that produced lasting benefit. And it describes subsequent difficulties that some faculty describe as corporatization. This includes difficulties that have recently led the increasingly numerous and important contingent faculty to unionize.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-92588-2_7
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Leaf, M. J. (2019). UCLA and the university of California, in An anthropology of academic governance and institutional democracy, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-207.
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