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Kleinpell, E. H. – 1975
Many of the difficulties encountered by colleges and universities in the effort to develop independence, quality, and uniqueness are examined by a veteran college president. Focus is on the evolution of an old normal school into a teachers college and then into the state college and university system. This collection of essays deals with the roles…
Descriptors: Activism, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Rogers, David L., Ed.; Whiting, Larry R., Ed. – 1976
The result of a rural development conference, this publication emphasizes the theory of rural public service planning and is addressed to middle and/or top level planners and public administrators and/or researchers concerned with the delivery of public services. The objectives of this 12-paper collection are: to review existing methods and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Citizen Participation
Reeves, Douglas B. – 2002
This guide is intended to be a practical primer to help education leaders meet the daily challenges of school leadership. It shows how to include leadership in an integrated system of educational accountability, teaching, and curriculum for student achievement; how to do away with ineffective, obsolete, and unnecessary practices; and how to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Effectiveness
Craig, Cheryl J. – 2003
This book explores the embodied narrative knowledge that educators hold and express in context and call forth in situations. It is about teachers and principals living and telling and reliving and retelling stories intuitively developed around metaphors borrowed from classical literature, music, drama, mythology, and children's literature to…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Aspen Education Development Group, Gaithersburg, MD. – 2001
This document provides guidelines for administrators related to instructional technology and planning. Chapter 1 discusses planning, including developing a technology plan, facility assessment, e-rate planning, formation of a technology committee, budget planning, and hardware/software replacement plan and costs. Chapter 2 addresses…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Administration
Dubin, Andrew E., Ed. – 1991
This book was predicated on the idea that an effective principal must be proactive in decision making and have available appropriate information sources to make good decisions. Each chapter analyzes decision making from the perspective of different professionals in education and business management. Through the use of personal accounts and case…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Case Studies
National Association of College and University Business Officers, Washington, DC. – 1996
This collection of essays explores a new paradigm of higher education. The first essay, "Beyond Re-engineering: Changing the Organizational Paradigm" (L. Edwin Coate), suggests a model of quality process management and a structure for managing organizational change. "Thinking About Consortia" (Mary Jo Maydew) discusses…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Change Strategies
Miller, Rodney E. – 1993
This book addresses the administration of music programs in institutions of higher education and the roles, responsibilities, and interactions of students, faculty and administrators. Chapter I looks at music departments and music education as a bureaucratic enterprise. It reviews trends in American higher education and its forms and argues for…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility
Smith, Douglas C. – 1983
This book reviews both preservice and inservice teacher education in the Republic of China and provides detailed analyses. In the first chapter, an overview of the educational system's structure in modern Taiwan and the United States is presented and comparisons drawn. Features of Chinese educational and intellectual thought and philosophy are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Chinese Culture, Comparative Analysis, Course Content
Irvine, Robert B. – 1987
Guidelines for administrator response to the mass media when one's organization is the focus of a news story are offered in this book. Practical suggestions are offered for the projection and enhancement of an organization's value in crisis and noncrisis situations. A common-sense communications approach is advocated regardless of organizational…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agenda Setting, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution
Snyder, Karolyn J.; Anderson, Robert H. – 1986
Intended for use by graduate students in educational administration and supervision as well as by practicing school administrators, this book is a guide to the most effective practices surrounding the school principalship. Ideas in the book reflect current views of good management, including systems approaches, participative and collaborative…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Ecology, Educational Administration
Gross, Theodore L. – 1988
Ways are described for college deans and administrators to take the lead in bringing together colleges, local school districts, businesses, and community organizations to provide innovative educational and professional development programs. An introductory overview of the origins and goals of educational partnerships describes such projects as the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Counseling, College Administration, College School Cooperation
Grossnickle, Donald R.; Sesko, Frank P. – 1985
This practical self-help guide approaches the topic of student discipline from the practitioner's perspective. Chapter 1 prescribes a teamwork approach to schoolwide and classroom discipline, involving a schoolwide commitment to mutual respect among students and staff and positive classroom management by teachers. Chapter 2 offers, as practical…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Behavior Standards, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
Tucker, Allan; Bryan, Robert A. – 1988
Written for deans in colleges and universities of all sizes and types, this book examines a number of management issues and provides advice on recognizing and solving problems that face academic administrators who have several departments or divisions under their jurisdiction. The book is divided into ten chapters: (1) The Perfect Dean; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Firestone, William A. – 1980
This book describes the chain stretching from President Nixon's announcement of the Experimental Schools Program in 1969 to the midpoint of its implementation in the Butte-Angels Camp School District (pseudonym for a small mountainous district 400 miles from Denver) in 1976. The story is told in some detail to illustrate the complexities of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Conflict
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