Trust and the Governance of Higher Education: The Introduction of Chancellor System in Hungarian Higher Education

Kováts, Gergely (2018) Trust and the Governance of Higher Education: The Introduction of Chancellor System in Hungarian Higher Education. In: European Higher Education Area: The Impact of Past and Future Policies. Springer, pp. 651-669. ISBN 978-3-319-77407-7

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Abstract

Trust plays a vital role in the cooperation of social actors. While researching trust becomes important in public management, the impact of trust on higher education policy and management has drawn less attention. This chapter analyses the introduction of the chancellor system in Hungarian higher education from the perspective of trust. In this new governance model, chancellors, who are appointed by the government, became responsible for the administration and budgets of higher institutions (HEIs), while rectors kept their prerogatives only on academic issues. The success of an institution now depends on the cooperation of its two interdependent leaders. Trust plays an especially critical role in such leadership constellation. The study is based on empirical data collected through two surveys conducted in 2015 and 2016 among academic leaders of Hungarian higher education institutions and uses Hurley’s decision-to-trust-model (Hurley 2012) as an analytic framework.

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