Key External Stakeholders: Groups and Associations

• Author: Cheryl Foy
• Pages: 82-89

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Key External Stakeholders:

Groups and Associations

A. TYPES OF GROUPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

e university ecosystem is complex. e purpose of this chapter is to give

the board member a sense of the type and nature of other groups and organ-

izations within this ecosystem. ese entities have been described as “a vital

piece of the post-secondary governance structure.” Because there are too

many organizations to enumerate individually, they have been grouped

and described in the following categories of associations: () academic, ()

faculty, ()administrative, () student, () athletic.

1) Academic Associations

is is a broad category that includes Universities Canada (described

below) and many others. As one example, you will hear reference to a

group of fteen Canadian research universities calling itself simply the

“U.” is group describes itself as “a collective of some of Canada’s most

1 David Young & Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier, “Governance and Administration of Postsec-

ondary Education Associations: A Vital Piece of the Postsecondary Governance Structure”

in Theresa Shanahan, Michelle Nilson & Li-Jeen Broshko, Handbook of Canadian Higher

Education Law (Kingston: School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, 2015) at 113.

2 For a longer description of these groups, see ibid.