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Direct linkPalm, Risa – New Directions for Higher Education, 2006
A number of challenges mark the transition from full-time faculty member to academic administrator.
Descriptors: College Administration, Career Change, Relocation, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Glick, Milton D. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2006
This recounting of the author's journey through a career as a faculty member and in various administrative positions offers lessons learned along the way.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, College Administration, Administrators
Download full textEdelson, Paul J. – 1991
During the period 1990-1991, a study was conducted of 13 deans and directors of continuing education who were in the first 3 years of their new positions. This group of newer deans and directors included some who were promoted to the position for the first time as well as those who had transferred from one deanship/directorship to another. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness
Alderman, Taylor – 1989
The manual is a guide for management representatives engaged in collective bargaining in higher education. It focuses primarily on faculty bargaining, but also addresses the problems of non-faculty units. It is intended for administrators, including governing board members, faced with significant responsibility for bargaining but without prior…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty
Howard, Steve, Comp. – 1984
The challenge of professionalism is addressed in the 32 papers published in this Proceedings. The papers and their authors include: "New Concepts of Management: Challenges of Professionalism" (keynote address, Herman Birnbrauer); "Alternate Financing of Campus Projects" (F. Louis Fackler); "An Automated Work Order System…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Asbestos, Building Operation, Campus Planning
Council of Graduate Schools in the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1981
A statement of principles and practices of graduate education in the 1980's offers to help institutions plan and evaluate the organiztion and administration of their graduate schools. It is argued that institutional goals and practices in higher education will be subject to close scrutiny and change in the coming decade. Changes forecast include…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Admissions Officers, College Administration
Moore, Arnold J. – 1981
The effects of collective bargaining in higher education on quality faculty, leadership, and programs are assessed. It is suggested that labor contracts tend to function without much direct relation to quality, but that educational management has attempted to address quality as part of the labor contract. Much of the content of an agreement is…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty
Scott, Robert A. – 1978
An examination of the university dean's role and its conflicts and ambiguities considered the type, frequency, nature, and the dynamics of the liberal arts dean's interactions with his faculty and staff and the central administration. Relations with staff and the provost and the dean's role as an individual in an organization are given major…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration
Coleman, D. R.; Bolte, J. R. – 1980
A planning and evaluation model for management information systems (MIS) at the institutional or system level in higher education is presented. The procedure provides an analytical approach for assessing the effectiveness of an existing information system utilizing a variation of the Business Systems Planning methodology developed by the IBM…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Data Processing, Decision Making
Collison, Michele N-K – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1994
Data on college and university administrators' salaries in 1993-94 are presented by institution type (doctoral, comprehensive, baccalaureate, two-year) and various administrative positions. Analysis indicates that public institution raises were higher than those at private institutions. Little change in the trend is anticipated in the near future.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration, College Presidents
Morris, Van Cleve – 1981
The inner structure of campus management is examined to reveal the human side of personnel management, public and student relations, budget planning, affirmative action, faculty politics, salary disputes, and tenure decisions. The analysis depicts the special situation that results from a dean's management of people who not only are the dean's…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Affirmative Action
Burhorn, John F. – 1980
Decision-making responsibility in small private liberal arts colleges as perceived by faculty, presidents, and trustees is examined in light of the growing pressures of the 1980's on the institutions. Problem areas identified through a literature survey were the acquisition and allocation of financial resources, student recruitment and retention,…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Madden, Margaret E. – 1997
This paper discusses management strategies based on feminist social psychological principles, applies them to the administration of small colleges, and suggests their effectiveness for dealing with intelligent and independent faculty members. The principles cited are: (1) individuals are located in a sociological context that creates differences…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Change Agents
Rosenzweig, Robert M. – 1998
The problems and prospects of American research universities are discussed in light of such issues as shifting federal policies, resource constraints, increased partnerships with business and industry, and the changing needs and perceptions of the larger society. The book captures the collective experiences of 12 former university presidents who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Presidents, Conflict of Interest
Russo, Joseph A. – College Board Review, 1995
The changing role of the college financial aid administrator is examined, and contributing factors are discussed, including shifts in public perceptions of the aid officer's function, public lack of understanding of the financial aid process, technological advancement, economic change, the federal government's evolving influence, and changes in…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, College Administration
