ABSTRACT
The issue of the governance of higher education has been a matter of critical scrutiny by many academics. The fundamental point is whether university governance has been able to preserve the idea of university, namely, academic freedom for the pursuit of knowledge. More specially, the point is whether governance has been through the community of scholars who alone are thought to be responsible for and capable of running the affairs of the university, namely, teaching and research. The structure of the book flows from state-level governance to university-level governance and down to the college level. Teachers and students are important stakeholders of higher education. Hence, governance issues relating to teachers and students are analyzed. The study looks at the issues and challenges of governance related to privatization. The financing of higher education assumes importance in governance. In this study, the governance of higher education has been looked at from the perspective of power relations. The reality of the ground is captured in terms of societal dynamics as well as the politics that the state brings to those dynamics, defying rationality, causation and sequence.
