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McKenzie, William – Education Next, 2014
This article presents an interview with Terry Grier, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District (HISD), Texas's largest district. Before taking this post, he had been a principal or superintendent for most of three decades and remains a reformer five years into his leadership. Grier has maintained his passion for improving schools…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Interviews, Profiles, Superintendents
Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2005
This article presents an interview with historian David Halberstam who graduated from Harvard University in 1955 after serving as managing editor of the "Harvard Crimson." Upon graduation, he joined the staff of the "Daily Times Leader" newspaper of West Point, Mississippi, and then moved on to the "Nashville…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Civil Rights, War, Historians
Ferren, Ann S. – 1998
This paper, one in a series about the priorities of the professoriate, examines the retirement decision-making of senior faculty, along with some of the key questions faced by administrators in light of the elimination of mandatory retirement. The first part of the paper reviews some general institutional issues, such as faculty turnover, faculty…
Descriptors: Aging in Academia, Career Change, College Faculty, Early Retirement