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D'Errico, Deanna, Ed. – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ3), 2010
This volume collects essays Rob Jenkins originally wrote for "The Two-Year Track" column in "The Chronicle of Higher Education". Drawing on his own experience, Rob has, for many years, been dispensing much-appreciated advice from the frontline--to those considering a community college career as well as those who desire to move up the ranks. This…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Job Application, Employment Interviews
Hickson, Mark, III, Ed.; Stacks, Don W. – 1992
This book presents 11 contributed papers which examine communication aspects of the department chair position in academia. It is noted that most academic department chairs are not trained in management skills, including communication strategies. After an introductory chapter by Christopher H. Spicer and Ann Q. Staton, the following papers are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Budgeting, College Administration, College Faculty
Wise, Arthur E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda – 1984
The papers in this collection report on various aspects of a project which studied the effects of educational policies upon classroom teaching. The background of the project is a set of intensive interviews of 43 randomly-selected teachers in 3 diverse school districts. In "Teaching Standards or Standardized Teaching," the point is made that…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Bureaucracy, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Design
Seldin, Peter; And Others – 1995
This volume contains 20 papers providing practical, ready-to-use, research-based information to foster effective college teaching. Four sections group the papers under the following topics: (1) key influences on teaching quality; (2) programs to improve teaching; (3) strategies for teaching improvement; and (4) approaches to nontraditional…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adult Students, College Faculty, College Instruction