Discusses how two proposed solutions to the escalation of college athletics, radically downsizing or professionalizing, are flawed, and proposes ways for Division I-A college presidents to work together and through their athletics conferences to stem the unhealthy expansion of college football and basketball. (EV)

"The Food-Safe School Needs Assessment and Planning Guide" is a tool that can help schools assess their food safety policies, procedures, and programs and develop plans for improvement. This tool includes a simple, straightforward questionnaire, score card, and planning guide that give administrators, school staff, families, and students a chance…

Discusses basic principles of marketing (referred to as the six p's: product, pricing, point of sale, people, promotion, and positioning) and shows how they can be applied to the marketing of day care centers. (SKC)

Discusses ways the department chairperson can assist in the continued development of tenured faculty. (PD)

Reviews tasks and duties of department chairs, stressing the importance of establishing priorities and delegating appropriately. Includes an Appropriate Chair Role analysis for the Communication Department, George Mason University. (PD)

Considers the department chair crucial to the welfare of the university, responsible for housekeeping functions (scheduling, planning, etc.), recruiting faculty and students, and assuming advisory/leadership roles in the campus community. (PD)

Examines two areas of accountability associated with the role of ideal dean: planning, which includes developing a strong internal database, and leadership. (PD)

The concept of mainstreaming and delivery of services is briefly examined from a principal's perspective. The characteristics which shape a principal's effectiveness are listed and research is cited to show that principals want more responsibility than they now have. Principals are urged to share their mainstreaming experiences with others.…

Suggests how administrators can understand the functions and relative merits of standardized tests. Notes that effective testing involves identifying criteria to be tested, techniques for testing these criteria, and standards for evaluation results. Urges principals to encourage the development and improvement of teachers' evaluation skills to…

Discusses the role of each member of a secondary school's athletic health care team, including the principal, athletic director, team physician, school nurse, coach or physical educator, and professional and student athletic trainers. (WD)

Offers 10 steps to follow in becoming a successful principal that are especially aimed at those new to their positions. (WD)

Schools are managed with the wrong organizational model in mind. They are unique and cannot be governed by conventional management theory. This article describes schools as loosely coupled systems and describes what school administrators should be doing to be effective in such a situation. (Author/WD)

Offers guidelines for secondary school administrators who need to evaluate reading instruction or to choose among alternative reading programs. (Author/WD)

Presents practical educational practices that can assist the elementary school principal in being an effective manager of mainstream programs. Suggests principals must exhibit competence, know about special services for the handicapped, and interface the needs of their staffs with the needs of their students. (NEC)

Explores how effective administrators help achieve consensus on desirable outcomes by the use of procedures that encourage actions to achieve those outcomes. The focus is on how program administrators influence priorities and not on organizational levels of policy making. (CT)