Describes an intensive training program for college and university administrators at Harvard University. (HS)

An interview with the new president of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (HS)

If the department is provided with professional management assistance and the chairman is released to pursue more pressing academic needs, the faculty will be less negatively inclined toward the position. (Author/HS)

Description of the role of the chief resident in a university training program. (HS)

The role of the college examiner at Passaic County Community College (New Jersey) is discussed in terms of his responsibility for evaluating the successful implementation of the systems approach to instruction. (NF)

Describes an in-service program for school administrators and supervisors that led to a tremendous increase in teacher-supervisor involvement. (AN)

The role of science division chairmen in regionally accredited public and private junior colleges is derived from the results of a national survey. Personal data and background, official job title, and teaching demands are the major aspects of the position discussed. (AL)

It is proposed that the external environment of the dean or chief administrator of programs for the professional preparation of educators is intensely and intrinsically political, and that orderly politics is impossible without commonly agreed-upon ground rules. (LBH)

Administrators wishing to consult for institutional change must be able to negotiate political and ethical quagmires or risk seeing their goals (and themselves) slowly sinking. This article presents the ecological perspective, professional and ethical issues in environmental change, and the participatory perspective of the student services…

Argues that public management differs from private management not just in degree but in quality, so that American business is an inappropriate analogy for evaluating public management. In particular, "purpose,""organization," and "people" have different meaning and significance in public agencies and private businesses. (JG)

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Discusses the challenges that a return to full-time teaching research, and service entails. Offers advice to foreign language and literature department chairs about their futures after their chairmanships. (Author/VWL)

Few positions on a college campus have evolved more than that of the chief marketing officer (CMO). Even a few years ago, this person, and position, did not exist. Of late, however, as colleges and universities have begun to appreciate the potential that integrated marketing communications has to offer them, more and more institutions have begun…