Factors that influence the effectiveness of program evaluation in higher education and eight recommendations for program evaluation are considered. Currently, program evaluation is characterized by negotiation because of three powerful concepts: the nature of multiple constructions and multiple realities; the influence of power distributions…

There is a growing awareness among scientists and researchers in every field that the selection of problems for research, the guiding theories, the interpretation of evidence, and resulting conclusions can be, and in fact often are, shaped by political or social ideology. If infused with keenly critical vigilance, such awareness affords the best…

Five approaches, designed by the Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL), help educational administrators gain access to the educational policy-making process. They include a year-long fellowship program, the Educational Policy Fellowship Program, for midcareer administrators to learn about policy-making at the federal, state, and local levels;…

THE DEFINITION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AS THE SELECTION, ASSIGNMENT, STIMULATION, GUIDANCE, AND EVALUATION OF HUMAN EFFORT TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN QUALITIES IS USED AS A FUNCTIONAL DEFINITION FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLARIFYING THE INFLUENCES AND CONTROLS OVER LOCAL SCHOOL SYSTEMS. IF INFLUENCE REFERS TO THE POWER OF PRODUCING EFFECTS BY…

This thesis describes a study that sought to ascertain if evidence could be found to support the idea that a relationship exists between a school administrator's ability to perceive the community power structure and his effectiveness in fulfilling role expectations as judged by his employer. A major thesis underlying this research held that…

Attempts by governmental powers to suspend the right to Habeas Corpus have occurred from time to time throughout English and American history. This study discusses one such successful attempt, engineered by William Pitt the Younger, then prime minister, in 1794. Pitt's success in gaining suspension of this writ and passage of the Habeas Corpus…

Problems in the impending transfer of British polytechnics away from local control and toward centralization are discussed. Political and practical considerations in the decision to centralize are examined. (MSE)

Systematically identifies the stages in the development of legislative proposals affecting schools. Gives special recognition to alternative sources of power in state government in contrast to the "formal institution-association" concept of power. (Author/IRT)

Author considers the ingredients necessary for a cultural revolution and its inner contradictions as a stumbling block for success. (RK)

This is a preliminary and tentative exploration of the significance of state authority for the governing of state universities. My limited purpose is to describe the nature of that authority and its apparent impact on university responses to the changing expectations of a new generation of students and faculty."

A speech to the 1976 annual meeting of the National University Extension Association addresses the problem of who shall control, develop, organize, provide for, and profit from the continuing education of professionals in our society. Attention is given to the concept of professionalism. (WL)

Too many educators believe good education transcends politics. Political influences abound. The rightist agenda demands an authoritarian, hands-on principal in a decentralized setting regulated by parents, testing, and a Eurocentric curriculum. The leftist agenda demands a consensual, hands-off principal supporting autonomous, antisystem teachers.…

The perception that independent study distance education is inferior is one issue planners must face in higher education. Negotiation of the interests of the institution, faculty, and administrators can be facilitated by collection of data showing opportunities and interests. (SK)

Rather than accept present theoretical approaches to the study of community political power as a basis for developing new theory, this monograph examines the saliency of the approaches themselves. By considering what kinds of data and questions are excluded by Hunter's "repute analysis" technique and Dahl's "issue analysis"…

The author begins with a description of the purpose of the Communist Party Congress and traces its development from an open forum of debate and discussion (prior to 1924) to its more conservative and restrictive position. He contends that with its current emphasis on conservatism, the Communist Party Congress has three communicative roles: (1) it…