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1. UNIVERSITY AUTONOMY,
A NECESSARY, BUT NOT
SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR
EXCELLENCE
IAU/IAUP Presidents’ Symposium
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 8-9 December 2006
Prof. Luc WEBER
Rector Emeritus University of Geneva
Vice-President IAU
2. Introduction and content
Magna Charta Universitatum (1998): “The university is an
autonomous institution at the heart of societies….”
Communication from the EU commission (2006):
“Universities will not become innovative and responsive to change
unless they are given real autonomy …..”
“……In return for being freed from over-regulation and micro-
management, universities should accept full institutional accountability
to society at large for their results.”
Recommendation 1762 of the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe (30/06/2006)
Art 4. “…The Assembly reaffirm the right to academic freedom and University
autonomy…”
Art 11 “Accountability, transparency and quality assurance are pre-
conditions…..”
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3. Two major messages:
I University autonomy is a necessary condition for
excellence
II University autonomy in not a sufficient condition for
excellence
A Public responsibility
B The responsibility of universities and their
stakeholders
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5. Why should universities be autonomous?
two observations
In history, each time the sovereign restricted the
autonomy of universities were period of intellectual
and social stagnation or decadence.
The best universities according to recent rankings are
very autonomous (exceptions in Japan, Russia or
China can be explained)
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6. Why should universities be autonomous?
two justifications
Society needs universities = long term responsibility
of universities towards society
to develop new knowledge and transmit it
to examine every societal questions freely, with a high level of
scholarship and the most appropriate scientific methods
Autonomous universities can be proactive and
entrepreneurial
too much and/or bad regulation, as well as too many short term
and often cyclical outside pressures or incentives, are initiative-
killing
and therefore the source of more regulation and political micro-
management weakening the institution (vicious circle!)
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7. What is the scope of “real” autonomy?
Autonomy should be secured towards:
the State,
business
religion (or any other type of spiritually inspired movement)
Main objects of “real “ autonomy:
internal organization, decision process, selection of leaders
study programs (official degrees should be regulated by the State)
choice of staff (academic and non academic)
choice of students (access promotion at system level)
financial resources + expenditure policy
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8. Degree of acceptance of autonomy
Broad – but not unanimous - acceptance within universities
Relatively good support of the principle at governmental level, but
widespread restrictions in its implementation
A dangerous political argument:
“government should stop funding independent institutions!”
This argument is dangerous because education and research have a
high collective return on investment in addition to the individual return
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10. Essential public responsibilities
Council of Europe recommendations (forthcoming)
“…… public authorities should ensure that higher
education institutions, while exercising their
autonomy, can meet society’s multiple expectations
and fulfil their various ….. purposes…….:
preparation for sustainable employment;
preparation for life as active citizens in democratic societies;
personal development;
the development and maintenance of a broad, advanced
knowledge base.
Public authorities should also ensure appropriate
conditions for higher education and research
institutions to fulfil their function of service to
society”.
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11. Intensity of responsibility
Public authorities should have:
“exclusive responsibility for the framework within
which higher education and research is conducted;
leading and/or substantial responsibility for
Ensuring all citizens effective equal opportunities to higher
education,
Ensuring that basic research remains a public good;
financing higher education and research,
the provision of higher education and research,
for stimulating and facilitating financing and provision by other
sources within the framework developed by public authorities.”
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12. Risks of conflict between public
responsibility and institutional autonomy
Governments’ higher education and research policy!
Appropriation of grants (subsidies) of varying amounts according to
priorities should be done over time and at a high level of
aggregation,
Contracts between government and institutions can also strongly
reduce autonomy
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13. II
University autonomy is not a
sufficient condition for
excellence
B The responsibility of
universities
14. The main question: are universities as
good as they could and should
(accountability)
Universities are, traditionally, decentralised institutions
where most of the decisions are prepared at the
“base” of the virtual hierarchy; this is also where most
of the competence lays (shared governance)
The assumption are:
that academics and students do always what is best for them and
that their decisions and behaviour is in the best advantage of the
whole institution
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15. The reality:
It is true that universities aim at quality and do adapt to the changing
environment, thanks to the capacity of adaptation of their academics
and to the newly recruited faculty!
However, do they adapt fast enough?
My belief: traditional universities
have performed well for centuries,
do not adapt fast enough today and that it is partly their responsibility
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16. The rapidly changing environment is a
real challenge for universities
In general:
Globalization and emergence of gigantic new economic powers
Exponential scientific and technological progress
In Europe, the Bologna process and the Lisbon agenda
In particular:
Participation rate continues to increase
Demands addressed to universities are increasing (LLL, specialized
training, research partnership)
Cost of research and teaching is increasing
Public funding is not forthcoming (governments have many other
obligations: health, aging population, security)
New ICT (hard and soft) open new potential for teaching and
research (Google, internet II, digitalization of libraries, open course
initiative,….)
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17. Consequences for universities: increasing …
Competition
Necessity to cooperate (paradox!) with other institutions and with
business (and governments)
Necessity to adapt faster to lead the change (and not to
undergo it) (Peter Drucker in 1997: “in 30 years, universities will
be relics”)
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18. Universities should be proactive
(entrepreneurial) and accountable
This implies that they:
Have a good understanding of their environment
Have a good knowledge of their portfolio (SWOT)
Set up their missions accordingly
Fix clear strategies to meet their missions
Organize themselves so that they can make decisions
Develop a rigorous quality culture
Are serious with the necessary accountability and transparency
In other words, Universities should be better
governed, led and managed
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19. Academic freedom does not mean total
freedom
Traditionally, academic freedom is closely linked with
institutional autonomy: does it mean that there is no constraint
to academic freedom
In most countries, academic freedom is better protected than
university autonomy: academics and advanced students have
the freedom to choose
the subject of their research and methodology of inquiry (this is
essential for creativity and innovation as it remains extremely
difficult to plan for a new discovery)
the ways and means to transfer knowledge to students (the transfer
of knowledge and of a sense for curiosity does not respond to a
unique rule)
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20. Obviously, the basic principles of academic freedom
are quite valid and must be preserved
However, the necessity for institutions to think and
act strategically justify today that academic freedom
is restricted on a few specific points?
Research: if an academic must remain free to tackle any topic he
considers relevant, the institutions are not compelled to support his
or her research financially (special infrastructure and current
expenditures) if the topic is not an institutional priority. Eventually,
an institution should be able to close a department
Teaching: institutions should make sure that the content of each
course is coordinated with the rest of the program
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22. My purpose was to promote two messages:
Autonomy is a necessary condition for excellence,
However, it is not a sufficient one
The public authorities, even if institutions are autonomous, keep
a strong responsibility in favor of higher education and research
Universities do not become excellent by the simple fact that they
are autonomous; far from it. Universities,
whatever their quality, must strive for excellence thanks to an
improved governance, leadership and management (capacity of
change in a rapidly changing environment)
Must be accountable to their sponsors (State, private sector,
foundations). This is an essential aspect of good governance.
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