E-governance and academic leadership for qualityenhancement in higher education institutions

In today’s world every moment, changes are occurring in almost all fields of life. Currently, Higher Education is performing multi-tasks for the development of a nation. It prepares and trains the workforce for the 21st century. Higher education has broadened the fields of knowledge due to which different changes are occurring in every field of life as well as in the field of higher education and invites academic leaders to integrate these changes and innovations for effective working in the global age. These changes have created many challenges for academic leaders, now academic leaders are responsible for tracing these changes and adding them for excellence in higher education. In some situations, academic leaders feel pressure as E-governance is necessary for advancement, while on the other hand, local and cultural norms create some hurdles for them. It is up to academic leaders to motivate faculty members to accept these changes for the improvement of the standards of higher education and also prepare the faculty members to integrate these changes. The objectives of the present study were to know the opinion of the faculty members about the E-governance and role of academic leadershipin accepting this change and implementingit for the betterment of higher education. The sample for the study was faculty members of higher education institutions taken from different Government colleges in the Ganjam district. It is found that Integration of change is necessary for improvement in the quality of higher education and it is the responsibility of the academic leaders.