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JONES*  \nOntario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto  \nTHERESA SHANAHAN  \nYork University  \nPAUL GOYAN  \nOntario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto  \nABSTRACT  \nThis study examines the academic senate within the context of university governance in Canada. Data were obtained from a survey of university senate secretaries on senate structure, composition, and operation, and from a survey of senate members on their perceptions of the senate, their role as senate members, and the nature of their work. The study raises concerns over the effectiveness of the senate and suggests a need to review the senate and its role in contemporary university governance within the context of the current Canadian higher education environment.  \n* Glen A. Jones is a professor and Paul Goyan is a graduate student in the higher education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Theresa Shanahan is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at York University.  \n36 Glen A. Jones, Theresa Shanahan, & Paul Goyan  \nRÉSUMÉ  \nLa présente étude examine le sénat académique dans le cadre de la gouvernance des établissements universitaires au Canada. Des données ont été obtenues à partir dʼune enquête menée auprès desecrétaires de sénats universitaires sur la structure, la composition et le fonctionnement des sénats ainsi quʼà partir dʼune enquête menéeauprès de membres de sénats sur leurs perceptions du sénat, leur rôleen tant que membres de ce dernier et la nature de leur travail. Cette étude soulève des préoccupations sur lʼefficacité du sénat et propose la nécessité de réexaminer celui-ci ainsi que le rôle quʼil joue dans la gouvernance des établissements universitaires contemporains, etce dans le contexte de lʼenvironnement actuel de lʼenseignementsupérieur au Canada.  \nINTRODUCTION  \nUniversity governance has become an important international issue in higher education (Amaral, Jones, & Karseth, 2002a; De Boer, Goedegebuure, & Meek, 1998; Gerard, 2003; Hirsch & Weber, 2001; Tierney, in press; UNESCO, 2000) . Shifting relationships between universities and the state have frequently created new challenges for institutional decision-making and governance arrangements. The significant reforms in higher education policy that have taken place in many jurisdictions over the last few decades have “led to fundamental changes in how institutions decide what they will do and how they will do it” (Reed, Meek, & Jones, 2002, p. xv) . At the same time, university governance has received relatively little attention in the higher education research literature until quite recently, and most of what has been written on the topic isnot grounded in empirical research. The relatively small numbers  \nThe Canadian Journal of Higher Education Volume XXXIV, No. 2, 2004  \nThe Academic Senate and University Governance in Canada 37  \nof research studies that have been published have tended to focus on governing boards (in those jurisdictions where they exist), or on governance mechanisms associated with finance/resource allocation issues (Hardy, 1996; Tierney, in press) . There have been surprisingly few empirical studies of academic governance in any system, including the United States (Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis, 2003), and none in Canada except for surveys of senate composition in the early 1970s.  \nThis paper examines the academic senate within the context of university governance in Canada. We present data from a national study of Canadian university senates that involved two components. The first phase focused on the collection of data from university senate secretaries on the basic structure, composition, and operation of Canadian university senates. In the second p","cbCaiqmta0X8boYN","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqmta0X8boYN","pdf",285594,34,"English","# Introduction\n# University Governance in Canada\n# Research Design\n# Findings\n# Issues Associated with the Academic Senate","[{\"question\":\"What data sources does the study use?\",\"answer\":\"It uses a survey of university senate secretaries and a survey of senate members. 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