ERIC Number: EJ685954
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Oct
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0951-5224
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Administrative Managers--A Critical Link
Whitchurch, Celia
Higher Education Quarterly, v58 n4 p280-298 Oct 2004
Institutional responses to changes in the higher education environment have caused movements in the roles and identities of administrative managers in UK universities. These shifts have highlighted the problem for individuals of balancing traditional public service considerations of administration with institutional innovation and development. Administrative managers find themselves not only acting as independent arbiters, giving impartial advice on the basis of professional expertise, but also becoming involved in political judgements about institutional futures. They increasingly undertake an interpretive function between the various communities of the university and its external partners. As the boundaries of the university have become more permeable, administrative and academic management have inter-digitated, and hybrid roles have developed. In undertaking increasingly complex functions, therefore, administrative managers play a critical role in linking the academic and executive arms of governance in the university.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Administrators, Educational Administration, Governance, Administrator Role, Educational Planning
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: Administrators
Language: English
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