Fostering Good Governance in Higher Education Institutions: The Case of Colombia

Henry Bradford, Alexander Guzmán, José Manuel Restrepo and María–Andrea Trujillo
Additional contact information
Henry Bradford: CESA Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración
Alexander Guzmán: CESA Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración
José Manuel Restrepo: Presidencia de la Republica
María–Andrea Trujillo: CESA Colegio de Estudios Superiores de Administración

Chapter Chapter 12 in Governance Models for Latin American Universities in the 21st Century, 2021, pp 213-230 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The development of good governance practices is necessary for every type of institution. The mitigation of conflicts of interest and an appropriate balance of powers must be sought between governance actors to ensure organizations work toward the common purpose and avoid being held hostage by the interests of a particular individual or group of stakeholders. Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Colombia are nonprofit by law. The absence of shareholders, or owners in general, in these organizations imposes specific challenges in terms of mitigating conflicts of interest. Colombia’s Ministry of Education is aware of this, and together with other education sector government agencies, teachers, deans, and rectors of various institutions have in the past decade participated in discussions on the need to encourage good governance at the country’s HEIs. These discussions have led to concrete actions being implemented, but at the same time revealed the need for further work. In this chapter, we propose a course of action that Colombia, and indeed any country in Latin America and beyond, can follow in order to encourage the implementation of good governance practices in HEIs.

Keywords: University governance; Public policy; Higher Education Institutions (HEIs); Good governance practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-83465-4_12

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030834654

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83465-4_12

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().