As institutions of higher education in the United States manage pressing health and well-being issues on campus, some are designating a new executive to lead institutional strategy-the university chief wellness officer (CWO). Increasingly, colleges and universities are purposefully shaping an organizational culture of well-being to positively…

This study advanced the research by Michael, Schwartz, and Balraj (2001) and McGoey (2005), which examined how trustees and other internal key stakeholders (respectively) from institutions of higher education in the state of Ohio perceived indicators of presidential effectiveness. The primary purpose of this study was to examine the perceived…

Closing programs is the most severe of the three strategies campuses typically consider during difficult financial times: generating new revenue, making across-the-board spending cuts, or undertaking targeted cuts. Closures of academic programs can have lasting negative fallout and the savings may not be as great as anticipated, but at certain…

THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION PRESENTED THREE SEMINARS IN 1961 FOR PROFESSORS OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. THE AIM WAS TO ENCOURAGE A MORE SYSTEMATIC USE OF CONCEPTS AND THEORIES IN RESEARCH ON SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. THIS REPORT PRESENTED 22 PAPERS WHICH WERE PRODUCTS OF THE SEMINARS. THE PAPERS WERE GROUPED UNDER--(1) SOCIAL…

The conferences reported in this document represent two phases of a process that has resulted in an array of programs to strengthen publicly assisted higher education in the state of Ohio. The following conference papers are provided: "A State Perspective on Excellence (and What Is Excellence?)" (Paul J. Olscamp); "The Role of the…