ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on university governance as process, and a number of conceptual lenses or theories that can be used to understand and explore processes. Governance in higher education may be perceived as a set of static institutional arrangements that guide the functioning of and decision-making in colleges and universities. Governance processes can be analyzed under the lens of bureaucracy in order to explore the formal power and authority relationships within the institution and the important role of procedural rules and policies. The chapter discusses how power and authority relationships within the university can be influenced by the ability of actors to contend with the uncertainties of the university's environment. This chapter adopts a process approach to institutional governance to examine the functioning of governing instruments such as committees, boards, senates, and councils in the academy and the general overall processes by which universities are governed.
