The firmer the structure of public higher education¡¦s board of regents and the more properly the board is operated, the greater the impact it produces upon the decision-making of the president, thus effectively boosting the efficiency of school conference, promoting the professional development of the faculty and showing the spirit of campus democracy. But, if the board of regents is not well-structured or not operated properly, it will inflate the administrative power led by the president and thwart the conference proceeding, causing factional disruption when it comes to polling time, which in turn undermines campus harmony and the function of the university as a whole. This study aims to find out factors that lead to the malfunction of the administrative power and the board of regents and ways that will help boost interaction of the two so as to uplift the efficacy of faculty professionalism. In particular, such aims consist of l) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated administrative power, 2) analyzing factors leading to ill-operated board of regents, 3) finding out ways for interaction between the two authorities, 4) finding out effective ways for conference proceeding, and 5) offering reference for boosting faculty¡¦s professional efficacy.
Two approaches were taken for those aims: 1) questionnaire survey and 2) interview survey. For the first, a total of 384 copies were handed out and 359 of them returned. The results of the survey were further analyzed through such statistical techniques as median, standard deviation, cause analysis, t-test, one-way ANOVA and LSD. For the latter, five participants were interviewed, including the principal, chiefs for academic affair and administrative affair, and non-executive faculty staff. And the study was made through qualitative approach to the survey stuff.
It was found that when the principal was at odds with the board of regents, the board members will discuss with the principal as to the vision of the university to reach common ground. When the board members are at odds with each other, they will take the decision made by majority vote. Gender and experience in executive jobs show significant difference in the board of regents¡¦ contribution to school reform. The same is true for staff position, school location, school nature, and school size. The top three contributions by the board to school shape-up as agreed by the respondents are 1) emphasizing school development as a whole, 2) helping cultivate school features and 3) granting more opportunities for school staff¡¦s involvement in school affairs. With respect to the respondents¡¦ opinions as to the board¡¦s
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functions in cultivating school reform, the interviewees show less approval in such items as ¡§ covered-all development ¡§, ¡§member growth¡¨, ¡§cause pursuit¡¨ and ¡§performance uplifting¡¨. As there are not enough male professors in the board, some universities have to fill the vacancy by adding some associate professors to them. But, the meetings of the board of regents were often aborted due to the fact that neither male nor female members hold up to one-third of the posts. So, before the rule was amended by the government authority, the president might as well pick professors from outside to hold the jobs so that outside experience or rule may be learned to upgrade the operation quality of the board of regents. The survey of this in depth interview also find a principal who honors faculty professionalism and fully delegates power to the board will produce more loyal board members to guarantee the smooth operation of the board, and thus exercise its functions to the full.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0717108-194700 |
| Date | 17 July 2008 |
| Creators | Chao, Cheng-pai |
| Contributors | Jih-hwa Wm, Chin-Tarn Lee, Fu-yung Kuan, Ting-Ho Huang |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0717108-194700 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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