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Jones-Kavalier, Barbara; Flannigan, Suzanne L. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ3), 2008
Based on research on hiring strategies used in community colleges nationwide, the authors use games as analogies to show how hiring practices are similar in many ways to games. They present a model for more entrepreneurial, innovative, and strategic approaches to hiring. Following a Foreword by George R. Boggs, this book contains seven chapters.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Personnel Selection, Models, Games
Goodall, Amanda H. – Princeton University Press, 2009
"Socrates in the Boardroom" argues that world-class scholars, not administrators, make the best leaders of research universities. Amanda Goodall cuts through the rhetoric and misinformation swirling around this contentious issue--such as the assertion that academics simply don't have the managerial expertise needed to head the world's leading…
Descriptors: Research Universities, College Administration, Leadership, Expertise
Lasagna, Molly; Laine, Sabrina W.; Behrstock-Sherratt, Ellen – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
No one stakeholder group can realize lasting change on their own; nor can any reform initiative focusing on just one type of strategy create the workplace conditions needed to truly build capacity within the education profession. Rather, stakeholders must focus on collaborating, reaching common understanding, and prioritizing for ultimate impact…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Personnel Selection, Unions, Educational Change
Kearney-Gissendaner, Janet E. – Eye on Education, 2010
The tools and resources in this book help school leaders seamlessly incorporate minority teacher recruitment and retention programs into current human-resources activities. With details about exemplary minority teacher recruitment and retention programs, this book also showcases strategies for how to replicate such programs in your own school or…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Minority Group Teachers, School Holding Power, Teacher Recruitment
Odden, Allan R. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education" offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in schools--from recruitment, to selection/placement,…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Human Capital, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Leadership
National Academies Press, 2010
"Gender Differences at Critical Transitions in the Careers of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Faculty" presents new and surprising findings about career differences between female and male full-time, tenure-track, and tenured faculty in science, engineering, and mathematics at the nation's top research universities. Much of this…
Descriptors: Productivity, Tenure, Gender Differences, Research Universities
Williamson, Ronald; Blackburn, Barbara R. – Eye on Education, 2010
Written to accompany the strategies presented in "The Principalship from A-Z," the activities in this book will help you apply the leadership concepts of Blackburn and Williamson to your own experiences as principal. Here, the authors guide you through the process of turning each idea into an actionable plan for your school, allowing you to take…
Descriptors: Discipline, School Culture, Academic Achievement, Instructional Leadership
Ostrom, John S. – National Association of College and University Business Officers (NJ3), 2006
The relationship that a college or university develops with its external auditor can make a substantial contribution to the fiscal management of the institution. Since the last edition of this book more than a dozen years ago, changing standards, a shrinking industry, and tougher government regulation have drastically altered the nature of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Money Management, Audits (Verification), Personnel Selection
Hickson, Mark, III; Roebuck, Julian B. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2009
This book provides potential answers to reduce deviant behavior and crime in colleges and universities. Claiming that the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings were aberrations, the authors have nevertheless uncovered offenses that presage major criminal incidents, such as students' engaging in cheating, plagiarism, binge drinking, date…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Plagiarism, Rape, Crime
Johnson, Susan Moore – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in today's schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Teacher Educators, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
Dowdall, Jean A. – Praeger, 2007
This book offers sample documents for candidates as well as for the search committees, and includes a substantive bibliography. From her vantage point outside the institution, the author is able to provide a unique point of view and insightful comments on the complex and often daunting process of the academic executive search. Key selling points…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Leadership, Consultants, Search Committees (Personnel)
Peterson, James A., Ed; Tharrett, Stephen J., Ed. – 1997
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) sets the industry standard for certifying professionals involved in health and fitness and their clinical applications. This 5-part publication provides a revised edition of six standards representing the industry's consensus on design and operation of a safe and high-quality health/fitness facility.…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Facility Guidelines, Organization, Personnel Selection
Sislin, John, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2007
The NRC Resident Research Associateship Program at NIST provides two-year temporary appointments for outstanding scientists and engineers. This book describes program applicants and awardees and offers suggestions for an in-depth assessment of career outcomes. Preliminary investigation indicates that outreach efforts produce more qualified…
Descriptors: Research Assistants, Program Evaluation, Scientists, Engineering
Mahoney, Dan – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008
Examining ourselves, why we do what we do, is the essence of human psychology and of ethics. The purpose of this book is to show how educators might choose among ethical approaches to decision-making as they face the choices they make each day. Features include the theory-based ethics and case studies of real and significant issues that teachers…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Theory Practice Relationship, Confidentiality, Moral Values
Dana, Joyce A.; Bourisaw, Diana M. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
The percentage of women in the superintendency remained stagnant over 80 years of the last century and has only increased slightly, to just fewer than 14% of the public school superintendents in the U.S. today. In other words, the glass ceiling still exists. The persistent reasons for lack of change are gender prejudice and gender…
Descriptors: Gender Discrimination, Gender Bias, Instructional Leadership, Females