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Peer reviewedWalker, Donald E. – Educational Record, 1979
It is suggested that recognizing the university as a political community may lead to better management and organization. The patriarchal role, the president as hero, dispersed power, how the university really functions, and a political model are described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Administration, College Faculty, College Presidents
Boyd, Herb – Crisis, 1989
Discusses conflict between Blacks and Jews in the entertainment world, particularly in the film, television, and music industries. Traces Black-Jewish interaction from vaudeville to present-day Hollywood, Broadway, and the recording studio. Describes controversial remarks by performers and public figures, and calls for an end to insults and…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Blacks, Broadcast Industry, Culture Conflict
Merriman, W. Richard, Jr. – 1986
The necessity for candidates for public office to gather money in order to mount effective campaigns has raised concerns that campaign contributions may give some individuals and groups improper influence on the selection of public officials and the making of public policy. Part of this concern stems from the pluralist theory that maintains that…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Democratic Values, Fund Raising, Higher Education
Storrar, Sandra J. – 1981
The relationship between career orientation of college institutional research/planning officers and perceptions of organizational and political environments was investigated, based on a survey of 154 officers in public doctoral-granting institutions. Of the 106 respondents, 53 percent were directors of institutional research/planning; 26 percent…
Descriptors: Administrators, College Administration, College Planning, Higher Education
Reid, John Y. – 1981
Issues concerning administrator evaluation at the University of Toledo, including internal political realities and the need to incorporate qualitative dimensions, were evaluated. The overall framework for the analysis of administrator evaluation at Toledo was based on the political model of J. Victor Baldridge (1971), complemented by Bacharach and…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrators, Advisory Committees, Case Studies
Download full textSHAFER, ELDON G. – 1968
THIS MONOGRAPH, VIEWING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A POLITICAL ENTITY, DEVOTES ATTENTION TO BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMUNITY PROBLEMS WHICH ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE CONSEQUENCE OF REORGANIZATION IS THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE LARGER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM REQUIRES CHANGES WHICH EITHER THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Selection, Board of Education Role, Community Attitudes
Mitchell, Lee M. – 1974
An independent task force, originally asked to explore the broad area of political public affairs broadcasting, changed its focus as a result of the Watergate crisis to the future of television as a source of information on the institutions and issues of government. To reinstate the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Commercial Television, Government Role, Legislators
Spiess, John A. – 1970
Reputational and pluralistic methods of community analysis differ; their findings, conclusions, and philosophies are frequently at variance. Reputationalists find an economically dominated power elite. They picture a community's power and influence structure as pyramidal -- the power elite forming a monolithic power pyramid. Thus, according to…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Community Influence, Community Study, Decision Making
Spring, Joel – 1998
The politics of education is driven by a complex interrelationship among politicians, private foundations, teachers' unions, special-interest groups, school administrators, boards of education, courts, and the "knowledge industry." Chapter 1 focuses on the major actors in the politics of education, and chapter 2 analyzes the…
Descriptors: Conflict, Court Litigation, Educational Economics, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedFisher, Glen – Higher Education Policy, 1998
Postapartheid reforms in South Africa's higher education system pose difficult issues of power, authority and consensus, resource allocation, monitoring, and evaluation that directly affect institutional and sectoral interests and the interests of civil society and government. Despite strengths and capacities of the system, deep-seated tensions…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Apartheid, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Gordon, Avery, Ed.; Newfield, Christopher, Ed. – 1996
Multiculturalism has become a major framework for analyzing intergroup relations in the United States, but the meanings of the term have become less and less clear. The 26 essays in this collection map the terrain of multiculturalism in its varied dimensions and discuss its future. The scholars represented, link the complex cultural questions of…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Concept Formation, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
Lander, Byron G. – 1983
The relevance of Richard E. Neustadt's presidential choice making theory to a university presidency is analyzed. This theory, which was introduced in Neustadt's 1960 publication "Presidential Power," is examined in regard to situations that occurred at Kent State University (KSU): the KSU Black United Student (BUS) confrontation with the…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Case Studies, College Administration, College Presidents
Worth, Walter H. – 1986
The Canadian population's belief in the values of effective leadership, proven competence, and responsive representation of society's interests have led to the development of an educational system in which (1) the central provincial government exercises greater power over education than do local boards, (2) local boards generally bow to the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
McKibben, Joyce – 1976
Cities and religious orders in colonial Latin America competed vigorously and often bitterly to acquire a university, but little is understood of the cultural impact of the university on cities, regions, or the colonial system. The university in the Spanish colonies derived its organization and traditions from the University of Salamanca, a…
Descriptors: College Role, Colonialism, Educational History, European History
Voth, Donald E. – 1977
Objective B of the Regional Project Statement for Project S-120 is "to determine perceptions toward development in activities, agency representatives, and clientele affected by organizational and agency activities". This paper addresses Objective B and presents a perspective which "suggests an answer to the inevitable 'so what' question when…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agency Role, Attitudes, Classification
