Community colleges employ over 100,000 full-time faculty members, or one fifth of all faculty members in U.S. post-secondary education (National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2001; Huber, 1998). These faculty members provide instruction in a wide range of programs for approximately 37% of all postsecondary students in the U.S., including…

Purpose: This research aims to fill a gap in the literature concerning the extent to which recruitment interviewers may substitute leadership capability sets (CSs) differing from those in the job specification (JS). Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with senior personnel involved in senior staff selection in a…

A national survey of 102 faculty members (reflecting a return rate of 56%) in schools and departments of journalism and mass communication focused on several problems in hiring new personnel. An equal number of respondents agreed and disagreed that journalism and mass communication is well-served by hiring practices prevalent in the field. Results…

This paper examines the use of total quality management (TQM) principles in the selection of college faculty, presenting a TQM model for the recruitment, identification, and selection of faculty. This model relates the role of vision, mission, planning, and organization design with quality concepts, such as leadership, empowerment, client…

This study describes the relationship between the flexibility of personality of the junior college president and the flexibility (or lack of it) in the faculty he hires, and also the relationship between turnover and the variable of this quality in the president and faculty members. As part of the study involved faculty turnover for three years,…

A survey developed by a task force composed of the Nebraska Council of School Administrators and the Nebraska Association of School Boards was completed by 226 school superintendents, mostly from rural districts. The respondents reported that 801 administrators were employed in their districts and supplied estimates of retiring administrators. An…

Follows up an earlier article the purpose of which was to describe a tentative affirmative model in higher education under which significant achievements had been made; this sequal describes and analyzes the results of the Affirmative Action Program through the University's first year of operation. (Author/JM)

Two leading writers on choosing a college president exchange views concerning the statement of leadership qualities, choosing one committee or two for the search process, the number of members of the search committee, selection of the search committee chair, and the period of greatest vulnerability (just before the decision). (DB)

The article describes the system used to hire new faculty at Atlantic Community College (New Jersey). Critical components are descriptive interviewing, which focuses on how the candidate has behaved in real situations, and a teaching simulation. (DB)

As the supply of new PhDs in business has declined in the past decade in the face of increasing demand, the cost of filling vacant faculty lines with qualified professors of business has increased substantially. Because salaries of current faculty members normally fail to keep up with market salaries, when a faculty line is vacated the college…

Recommendations concerning faculty recruitment, screening, selection, orientation, and development are presented as developed by the New Faculty Subcommittee of Miami-Dade Community College. The recommendations include the following: (1) the college should establish and fund the position of Recruitment Coordinator, adopt an organized recruitment…

The scholar-teacher, whose functions lie at the heart of the college or university, should have a part in the selection of chairman, dean, and president, suggests this director of the Division of Educational Placement at the University of Pennsylvania. (Editor/LBH)

This study looked at future demand for faculty at institutions of higher education by developing a larger and more sophisticated model of faculty demand than previously used and by examining faculty separation and hiring patterns among independent colleges and universities. All members of the Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium (125…

The role of an elementary school principal is diverse, challenging, and highly specialized in both technical and interpersonal skills. The principal either makes the school an exciting, vibrant learning center, or a stagnant, regimented building; he or she is the measure of achievement or the cause of failure. The selection of this leader should…