Abstract
In order to realize these goals, the shared governance tradition calls for the voting faculty to have primary authority over: (1) policies for admitting students; (2) curriculum; (3) procedures of student instruction; (4) standards of student competence and ethical conduct; (5) maintenance of a suitable environment for learning; and (6) standards of faculty competence and ethical conduct, including faculty appointments, promotions, and faculty status. [...]shared governance is a necessary condition for higher education's mission of creating and disseminating knowledge, academic freedom, and peer review. [...]for both the research and the teaching missions, there should be clarity about the primary geographic focus: local, state, regional, national, or international. [...]leadership from within the faculty collegium must be clear on the correlative duties of academic freedom which the social compact requires of both the individual member of the profession and the peer collegium itself. [...]leadership from within the faculty collegium has a duty to create a culture of high aspiration with respect to the goals and ideals of the profession (including shared governance duties).