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Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
Part 1 of the 1963-64 Education Directory of the Office of Education covers state governments. The principal school officers of state and territorial education departments and library extension agencies are listed in order to enable officials' identification and illustrate organizational structure and hierarchy. The chief state and territorial…
Descriptors: Directories, State Government, State Departments of Education, Public Schools
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Byrd-Blake, Marie; Wesson, Linda – Journal of Women in Educational Leadership, 2005
The feminist phase theory (Tetreault, 1985) was used to examine the cultural patterns embedded in a department of a large, urban university, to classify how the faculty in the department perceived women, and to examine how our own behavior as two newly hired associate and assistant professors contributed or did not contribute to these patterns of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Urban Universities, Females, Advocacy
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Kekale, Jouni – Tertiary Education and Management, 2003
University of Jones launched a two-year development and training project on academic management and leadership in the beginning of 2002. Open seminars were arranged for heads for departments, deans and administrative managers. In addition, personnel administration started pilot projects with two departments in co-operation with the Finnish…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Personnel Management, Occupational Safety and Health, Leadership Qualities
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Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl; Henderson, Alison; Rix, Caroline – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2005
An action research project, managed by a graduate student, resulted in the development of an academic website as an effective internal and external communication tool. The main focus of the investigation was to uncover the tacit knowledge held by staff in the Department of Management Communication through a series of in-depth interviews, a focus…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Action Research, Research Methodology, Focus Groups
Zook, George F. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
On the basis of an extended conference composed of school superintendents and principals in June, 1918, the Arkansas State Board of Education issued, June 1, 1920, a preliminary outline of a course of study for high schools. This circular also contained certain standard requirements for approved high schools. Contained in the outline were the…
Descriptors: Superintendents, College Presidents, High Schools, Conferences (Gatherings)
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
The educational directories for 1909, 1910, and 1911 United States Bureau of Education cover the following categories: (1) Chief State school officers; (2) Officers of State boards of education; (3) Executive officers of State library commissions; (4) Superintendents in cities and towns of 4,000 population and over; (5) County superintendents; (6)…
Descriptors: Directories, State Boards of Education, State Agencies, School Personnel
Johnson, Brad W. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
This book is the definitive guide for faculty in higher education who wish to mentor both students and junior faculty. It features strategies, guidelines, best practices, and recommendations for professors who wish to excel in this area. Written in a pithy style, this no-nonsense guide offers straightforward advice about managing problem mentor…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Guides, Guidelines, Law Schools
Missouri Department of Higher Education, 2006
The Coordinating Board for Higher Education and the Missouri Department of Higher Education present this fiscal year 2006 Annual Report to inform individuals of the state's status and progress in higher education. Section 173.040, RSMo (see Appendix A) specifically details what information the CBHE should include in its annual report. The various…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Enrollment Trends, Student Financial Aid, Proprietary Schools
Larson, R. Sam; Meyer, Gary – Metropolitan Universities, 2006
Faculty may learn of new pedagogies through mass communication channels such as Web sites, journals, and workshops. Faculty are likely to be persuaded to try these new pedagogies, however, by interpersonal communication with an opinion leader. Using literature and exploratory data we contrast awareness and persuasion and suggest that opinion…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Opinions, Interpersonal Relationship, Information Dissemination
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Charland, William – Arts Education Policy Review, 2006
In-service professional development in education began informally in the early nineteenth-century as a means of disseminating classroom management techniques, specifically addressing ways in which corporal punishment could be delivered to a child without inflicting serious injury. This initial effort paralleled a concern regarding children's…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
College Board, 2008
More than ever before, educators across the United States are enabling a wider and more ethnically diverse proportion of students to achieve success in AP[R]. Significant inequities, however, which jeopardize traditionally underserved students' chances at college success, remain. This "Report" uses a combination of state, national, and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement, Graduation, State Departments of Education
Bowman, Isaiah – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1939
As never before, human welfare today depends upon the results of research, and upon the steady stream of scholars needed for the increasingly arduous demands of intellectual leadership. That unit of the educational system most directly responsible for stimulating research and for developing scholarly leadership is the graduate school. How to…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Leadership, College Faculty, Democracy
Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
The "Educational Directory" is released in four parts as rapidly as the data become available. This first part of the 1935 directory, published by the Office of Education, focuses on State and county school officers. The contents include: (1) United States Office of Education; (2) Principal State school officers; and (3) County and other…
Descriptors: State Schools, School Business Officials, State Officials, Directories
Capen, Samuel Paul – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This bulletin is divided into four parts. Part I contains lists of institutions accredited by State universities. Part II contains lists of institutions accredited by State departments of education. Part III contains lists of recognized or approved colleges prepared by the influential voluntary organizations of secondary and higher institutions…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Accreditation (Institutions), Classification, Boards of Education
New England Resource Center for Higher Education, 2001
Ten years ago higher education scholars predicted a major faculty turnover in the late 1990s and into the twenty-first century--a prediction based on demographic data on an aging faculty. The turnover is under way, accelerated by early retirement policies. Currently blocks of faculty positions are opening up at regional colleges and universities,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Diversity (Faculty), Teacher Orientation, Tenure
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