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Greive, Donald; France, Richard E. – 1992
Guidelines for conducting and facilitating a workshop designed as an orientation for both beginning and experienced adjunct faculty at community colleges are presented in this instructor's manual. The manual contains the following 11 sections, each defining an objective or activity to be undertaken during the workshop, and providing…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Instructional Improvement, Orientation Materials, Part Time Faculty
Everett, R. E.; Sloan, Charles A. – 1984
School board members usually have great power but little training. The literature supports the need for orientation and inservice training. A survey of a random sample of newly elected board members and superintendents in Illinois revealed a difference between the two groups in perception of training. Apparently superintendents believe that more…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
Cuyjet, Michael J., Ed.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F., Ed.; Cooper, Diane L., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
As the diversity of the students on campus increases, the importance for everyone in authority to understand students' distinct cultures and how they perceive institutions, and equally, to understand their own privilege, and often unconscious cultural assumptions, has never been greater. This book presents a comprehensive set of resources to guide…
Descriptors: Social Justice, College Students, Race, Discussion
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Ross, John A.; Berger, Marie-Josee – School Leadership & Management, 2009
Principals are required by policy, regulation, legislation and democratic discourse to promote equity of outcomes. This integrated review investigates research on equity issues facing five student groups: special needs students; religious, cultural and racial minorities; groups disadvantaged by socioeconomic status; gender groups; and students…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Community Involvement, Academic Achievement, Special Needs Students
Yeatts, Mary Lou – School Administrator, 2005
Who should be responsible to assist new principals? Many people should participate in the orientation. The building administrator is expected to work with the school district's director of pupil personnel, instructional supervisors, finance director, special education administrator, facilities management officials, as well as classified and…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Principals, Superintendents, Mentors
Higdon, Leo I., Jr. – Trusteeship, 2006
Traditionally, new board members have taken up roles that were established and well-defined long ago. But globalization swiftly and utterly changed that mindset. Institutions now are directly affected by events occurring thousands of miles away, and it is no longer possible to rely solely on long-standing, accepted board practices to provide good…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, College Administration, Trustees, Governance
Brunner, Judy; Lewis, Dennis – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
For many administrators, the task of providing meaningful and timely inservice training for classroom and school safety is difficult. Staff development time is a scarce commodity in today's education environment; therefore, most inservice activities for faculty members center on academic issues. But during an emergency or crisis, a lack of…
Descriptors: School Safety, Inservice Education, Staff Development, Guidelines
Bonner, Fred A., II, Ed.; Marbley, Aretha F., Ed.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
While many institutions have developed policies to address the myriad needs of Millennial college students and their parents, inherent in many of these initiatives is the underlying assumption that this student population is a homogeneous group. This book is significant because it addresses and explores the characteristics and experiences of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Ethnicity, Race
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Hartnagel, Douglas – College and University, 1986
The University of Massachusetts/Boston's program of short- and long-term orientation, organizational communication, career development, and professional recognition for administrative support staff is described. (MSE)
Descriptors: Career Development, College Administration, Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship
South Dakota Board of Regents, 2006
The South Dakota Opportunities Plan is being presented to the South Dakota Legislature in fulfillment of the Legislature's directive from the 2006 session (House Bill 1238). The plan is intended to provide insight into the critical issues confronting higher education in South Dakota, responses made by the Board of Regents to these situations, and…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Goal Orientation
Diamond, Robert M. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education asks colleges and universities to become more accountable to the public, more accessible to students from the broad spectrum of society, more proactive in responding to international competition, and more purposeful in reducing their costs. This report is the latest in a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Accountability, Resistance to Change
Cooper, Rita; Smith, Barbara Leigh – AAHE Bulletin, 1990
Between 1986 and 1989, The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, increased its proportion of faculty of color from 11 percent to 20 percent. This was accomplished by reorganizing the college's approach to faculty hiring and retention. Keys to hiring success involved institutional commitment, utilization of inside resources, being…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Environment, College Faculty, Ethnic Groups
Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The School Improvement Specialist Project prepared seven modules. School improvement specialists, as defined by the Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia, are change agents who work with schools to help them improve in the following areas so as to increase student achievement. These modules are intended to provide training materials for…
Descriptors: Specialists, Literature Reviews, Goal Orientation, Learning Modules
Moore, Joi L., Ed.; Benson, Angela D., Ed. – InTech, 2012
This book, written by authors representing 12 countries and five continents, is a collection of international perspectives on distance learning and distance learning implementations in higher education. The perspectives are presented in the form of practical case studies of distance learning implementations, research studies on teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Instructional Design, Educational Technology
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Augenstein, John J.; Konnert, M. William – Journal of Educational Administration, 1991
To explore the informal socialization of beginning elementary school principals, questionnaires were sent to a population of 107 Catholic school principals in their first, second, or third year of elementary school principalship in Ohio. Usable responses from 81 (76 percent) identified the significant others and the stages of 25 selected…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Catholic Schools, Elementary Education, Principals
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