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Beck, Edward S. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1999
Discusses the original dreams of the founders of the American Mental Health Counselors Association; looks at history and comments on the state of mental health counseling as it has struggled to evolve as a profession. Urges those in the counseling profession to consider an acquisitions and mergers corporate mentality to ensure and enhance the…
Descriptors: Counseling, History, Mental Health Workers, Mergers
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Change, 2001
This report is installment two of a three-part series describing research on stakeholder perceptions conducted under the auspices of the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement. The survey revealed that the public's assessment of higher education is generally favorable. The report includes discussion of survey responses and several data…
Descriptors: Charts, Postsecondary Education, Public Opinion, Stakeholders
Chambers, Jay; Shambaugh, Larisa; Levin, Jesse; Muraki, Mari; Poland, Lindsay – American Institutes for Research, 2008
Though the number of districts with student-based funding-type (SBF) policies has grown, the literature on the implementation and possible impacts of these policies is limited. To address this, this report describes the implementation of SBF policies in two California school districts--San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Program Effectiveness, Comparative Analysis, Resource Allocation
Alberta Education, 2008
Alberta Education conducts a set of annual telephone surveys to obtain feedback from education system stakeholders regarding their perceptions of Alberta's education system. Respondents for the survey include senior high school students, parents of children in the K-12 education system, parents of children with severe special needs, teachers in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Telephone Surveys, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Clayton, Tonika Cheek – Grantmakers for Education, 2008
Confronting two unhealthy approaches that surface frequently in philanthropy--the tendency for grantmakers to think they alone have all the answers and the tensions that arise when national and local funders try to work together--this case study is intended to help grantmakers think more deeply about the concept of "engaged partners," one of…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Community Colleges, Private Financial Support, Academic Achievement
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DinanThompson, Maree; Sellwood, Juanita; Carless, Felicity – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2008
This paper presents evidence collected from an evaluatory study of the Kickstart program conducted by Australian Football League (AFL) Cape York in far North Queensland. The aim of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of the Kickstart program in meeting its overall objective of enhancing lifeskills of Indigenous Australians through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Team Sports, Indigenous Populations, Youth Programs
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Jorgensen, James D.; Helms, Lelia B. – Review of Higher Education, 2008
The Supreme Court first affirmed the importance of academic freedom in 1957. Yet in subsequent cases, First Amendment precedent has displaced the concept of academic freedom to resolve disputes among competing interests on public campuses, primarily in favor of institutions. This paper draws on the concepts of path dependence and policy space to…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Constitutional Law, Stakeholders, Court Litigation
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2009
This report presents the findings of the formative evaluation of the Understanding the Early Years (UEY) Initiative. The evaluation was conducted to examine issues of implementation and design, early progress in achieving immediate objectives, and issues related to accountability. The evaluation team was also asked to provide preliminary guidance…
Descriptors: Evidence, Summative Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Technical Assistance
Awwad, Sawsan Tabry – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Weerts' model of Institutional Commitment to Community Outreach and Engagement (2005) was adapted in this qualitative action research case study to fill a gap in the literature regarding: (a) a private university president's role in promoting "A Private University with a Public Purpose"; and (b) differences between public and private university…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Strategic Planning, Private Colleges, Action Research
Anderson, Christopher L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The problem. To consider reorganization of two or more Iowa school districts in light of declining enrollment, dwindling financial resources, the end of the state budget guarantee program and pressure to provide the most rigorous and relevant education possible to Iowa's students. Specifically, the problem is to determine what two or more school…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), School District Reorganization, Boards of Education, Superintendents
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Saint, William – Higher Education Policy, 2009
This is a preliminary survey of the laws and statutes that determine governance arrangements for higher education systems as well as individual institutions in 24 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an overview of recent higher education governance trends within Africa, it describes the current range of practice and most common approaches…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Institutional Autonomy, Governance
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Mishra, Sanjaya – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
This article presents an overview of the e-learning in India. It describes the historical developments of e-learning and identifies major stakeholders and institutions that have initiated e-learning programs after the creation of the National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development constituted by the Prime Minister of India…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
Walker, Karen – Education Partnerships, Inc., 2006
How can change become institutionalized? With the advent of a new superintendent, principal, curriculum director and/or legislature, each of whom wants to make their mark with hopes of "improving" public education by introducing new programs, the message teachers receive from those who are not in the trenches is that they are incompetent…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Change, Stakeholders, School Administration
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Turcotte, Sandrine; Hamel, Christine – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2008
Remote Networked Schools (RNS) is an initiative by the Quebec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports (MELS) to investigate solutions that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) can offer for the preservation of small rural schools in Quebec, Canada. The implementation of RNS mobilized then--as it still does now--the local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Small Schools, Rural Schools
Hansen, Alan – ProQuest LLC, 2008
This qualitative study examined the process of adopting online education at three private colleges. All three institutions participating in the study were private Catholic colleges that offered their first online courses in the late 1990s. The research question posed for this study was: Within the participating institutions, how did online…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Case Studies, Adoption (Ideas)
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