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Yantz, Patricia M.; Bechtold, Charles – 1994
Tompkins Cortland Community College (TCCC) in Dryden, New York, opened the College Teaching Center (CTC) in 1988 to address the professional development needs of full- and part-time faculty. The CTC is an autonomous, faculty-directed, professional development program with its own budget and Board of Directors. Activities sponsored by the CTC are…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Role, Community Colleges, Department Heads
Slick, Sam L., Ed.; Klein, Richard B., Ed. – 1993
A collection of 31 articles addresses issues in college language department administration, focusing on the role and responsibilities of the department head. The following articles are included: "View from the Top: What a Liberal Arts College President Expects from a Language Department" (Schmidt); "View from the Top: What a Liberal Arts Dean…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Estes, Gary D.; Arter, Judith A. – 1984
A project to assist with improving test efficiency in local school districts and state agencies is described. The report describes and defines the term "item banking." Considerations in selecting, developing, or managing an item bank are discussed. Testing purposes considered suitable for item banking include student selection for special…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Creswell, John W.; And Others – 1990
This book champions the importance of chairing an academic department (or division) and focuses attention on the strategies "excellent" chairs use in building a positive work environment for faculty and releasing individual faculty potential. The framework is based on human, organizational, and career development; systems theory; and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1990
This paper attempts to provide some guidance to school administrators, school boards, social studies teachers, and others about the key components of citizenship education and its relationship to social studies education. The paper defines citizenship education as the primary purpose of the social studies and provides three key characteristics of…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Philosophy
Kohl, Jeanne – 1987
Legislative mandates on sexual discrimination do not necessarily guarantee enduring change, as is demonstrated by the reinterpretation by the United States Supreme Court of Title IX of the Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In the landmark decision in "Grove City College v. Bell" in 1984, the court ruled that Title IX,…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Colleges, Court Litigation
North Dakota State Dept. of Public Instruction, Bismarck. – 1986
This guide was developed to provide assistance to North Dakota schools in improving their elementary mathematics programs. Use of calculators and problem-solving instruction is firmly suggested, and computers should also be integrated in the mathematics program. Following statements of philosophy and goals, the scope and sequence of skills for…
Descriptors: Calculators, Educational Change, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Cook, Gillian E.; Skipper, Barbara L. – 1986
A clinical supervision training program has provided department level coordinators with support in their role as a bridge between administrators and teachers in six high schools and nine middle schools in a San Antonio, Texas, school district. This paper identifies major characteristics of the training program's model, describes the program, and…
Descriptors: Departments, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Program Design
Sheehan, Bernard S.; Newsted, Peter R. – 1984
Computer-based support services needed by individual planners/managers in small academic units (deans' and department heads' offices) within a larger higher education environment should provide the capability to interact easily and inexpensively with powerful information systems which allow the planner to integrate data from several sources, test…
Descriptors: Deans, Department Heads, Educational Planning, Educational Research
Greene, Madeleine F., Ed. – 1988
Conventional wisdom on the nature of leadership in higher education is challenged in this collection of 12 essays. They are divided into three sections: (1) The Context; (2) New Leaders and New Models; and (3) Strategies and Resources. Chapters and authors include: "Leaders and Their Development" (Madeleine F. Green); "Toward a New Leadership…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty
Carkin, Susan – 1988
The rationale and process for creating a credit-bearing intensive English program (IEP) at Utah State University, a land-grant institution with about 1,000 foreign students, are described. The program evolved from an intensive English language institute whose proficiency-granting process became tedious for staff and administrators. As a result,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Case Studies, College Credits, Departments
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This publication is designed as a reference book for business teachers and school administrators who are concerned with present and future problems of administering and supervising business education at the secondary level. Chapter I details the roles and responsibilities of the business education department chair who is administrator, supervisor,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Business Education, Curriculum Development
Walling, Peter J. – 1984
Based on information reported to the New Jersey State Department of Education in 1983, this report is intended to foster communication on educational uses of computers between and among school districts, county offices, and the department's central office. The first of four sections summarizes data from the department's Survey of Instructional…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Microcomputers
Lentz, Linda P. – 1985
Computer use in Michigan schools has evolved in three stages over the past decade. In the first, computers were new and few, and professional development was typically self-initiated. The Michigan Association of Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) was formed at this time to provide resources to local districts which they were unable to provide…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Winans, Glen T. – 1985
Different approaches employed to automate the administrative recordkeeping processes within academic departments at three University of California campuses are contrasted: the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of California at Santa Barbara. The results are based on campus…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Departments, Higher Education
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