ANU Governance Project

OPINION

Australian universities face a governance crisis - and their communities are already building solutions

Concerns about unaccountable governance, limited transparency, high executive pay, and poor outcomes for staff wellbeing and student safety have put the Australian university sector under unprecedented scrutiny. Historian Hannah Forsyth argued that the solution is to “better connect universities to community, with more democratic internal decision-making systems”. The question is: how? The answer is already emerging from within universities themselves.