شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The study aims at clarifying the concept of governing universities and measuring its validity to develop universities. The study also aimed at showing the relationship between applying the inclusive quality criteria and the effect of administrative governance. To achieve these goals, the researcher uses the descriptive methodology ; the tool of the study is distributed to the study population of university teachers and academic leaders at private universities. The study proved that governing private universities in Riyadh is too high (4.16). thus, the study rejects the assumption which says that there is no relationship between the inclusive quality criteria and the administrative governance. In addition, the study proved that there is a medium relationship between the independent variable (software quality criteria) and the dependent variable (administrative governance). In other words, there is a clear relation between applying the inclusive programmatic quality criteria and activating the administrative governance at private universities. The study recommends that there should be special laws and legislations of university governance; establishing independent comities at private universities to follow up governance criteria and evaluating them; raising the awareness of effective governance and its criteria of transparency, accountability, and participation; updating the legislations which guarantee the true independence of universities in the financial and administrative aspects. As a result, universities will be more developed and more professional. (Published Abstract)