Discusses the role of the University of Toronto's humanities chair in dealing with other disciplines at the university. (MM)

The role of the secondary school administrator in staff management is critical to institutional effectiveness, especially during times of uncertainty concerning educational directions. The administrator must make positive efforts to represent central authorities to the school's staff and vice versa and to improve internal organizational structures…

Presents authors' abstracts of nine unpublished papers presented at the British Educational Management and Administration Society's annual conference in 1984. The conference focused on the interrelationships between the individual and the system, with emphasis on the position of school administrators within the educational system. (PGD)

The biggest challenge for the director of the Campus Writing Center at Marietta College is to provide and deliver a "credit-free" tutor-training curriculum that voluntarily draws students out to constructively reflect on and refine their practice. The use of video as a means for tutors to conduct self-reflection, as well as a means for…

Effective school leadership requires an understanding of the tension between the technical and symbolic aspects of leadership. This paper presents findings of a study that examined principals' self-reported leadership orientations. A survey (the Principal Behavior Inventory) mailed to 865 secondary principals at Ohio public and private schools…

The president of a relatively small college describes the road he traveled in trying to adjust to the emerging technologies. While the embedded leadership in technology in an earlier presidency had resulted in that institution becoming somewhat of a "posture-institution" for the other colleges and universities in the larger state system,…

Predicts that communication skills will be increasingly desirable for corporate executives whose training will require education and industry to cooperate in developing communication-related business courses. Journal available from Communication Research Associates, 7338 Baltimore Blvd., Suite 101A, College Park, MD 20740; sc $7.00. (PD)

Eight papers presented at the Fourth Delbert Oberteuffer Symposium are reprinted. The topic of the symposium was the role of the administrator in planning and implementing health education programs in the schools. The papers cover a variety of problems as well as suggestions for improving the quality of school health education. (JD)

Studied perceived and actual leadership of five school district superintendents in California who focused on curriculum and instruction as the core technology of education. Identified four attributes superintendents thought were essential to their success as instructional leaders. Responses of principals and school board members to a questionnaire…

This paper reports on the final phase of a three-part study on the status of instructional supervision within several New York City public schools. In the first parts of the study the researchers found, through extensive use of surveys (questionnaires and interviews), that centralized educational reform had serious consequences for instructional…

Writing centers have to adapt their philosophies to meet challenges that are unique to individual institutions. Working with faculty in other disciplines inevitably brings changes in what writing centers do, creating a need for some adaptation in the way a center operates--on at least a practical, day-to-day level. The greatest challenge is to…

The Organizational Communication Culture (OCC) method, designed by Charles A. Bantz (1993) was utilized as the primary method for analyzing messages coming from the administration of California State University, Northridge, after the earthquake. Bantz feels that communication interactions in an organization bring meanings and expectations to that…

This paper presents findings of a study that examined the leadership practices of women superintendents to determine if their practices fit a new paradigm of administrative leadership. Data collection included: (1) telephone interviews with 30 rural and 21 urban female superintendents across the United States, and (2) completion of the Leadership…

A study explored the relationship between superintendent career aspirations and involvement in collective bargaining. Questionnaires mailed to 300 Ohio school superintendents yielded 241 responses, an 80 percent rate. Carlson's (1962) typology was used to classify superintendents as either career- or place-bound. Four factors of collective…

An overview of the principal's changing role in the 1990s is examined in this paper, with a focus on changing expectations and current issues and problems. The school administrator of the 1990s must possess an increasing complexity of knowledge and skills, vision, and understanding of participatory management, and must recognize the changing…