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Ciancio, Sharone – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2018
Service transformation is an increasingly common pursuit in the higher education sector, with university strategic plans frequently featuring a "service excellence" objective and the adoption of leaner and more sustainable service models. Previous studies agree that service excellence is intentional not incidental, and systematic not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Strategic Planning, Qualitative Research, Student Records
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Laura, Crystal T. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2018
Drawn from a compendium of multiple cases, this single-subject qualitative study offers a nuanced depiction of the ways school principals advocate for social justice through teacher hiring. The hiring experiences of one Hispanic female high school principal was used to explore: (a) the principal's approach to school personnel administration to…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Styles, Teacher Recruitment
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Kuh, George D. – Journal of College and Character, 2016
In these uncertain times, it is essential when dealing with student activism that faculty and staff base their actions on foundational assumptions and beliefs representing best professional practice that serve the multiple purposes of higher education. To set a context for his arguments, the author draws on a recent example from the field. The…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Best Practices, Activism
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Johnson, Adam W. – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2016
As a growing entity within higher education organizational structures, enrollment managers (EMs) are primarily tasked with projecting, recruiting, and retaining the student population of their campuses. Enrollment managers are expected by institutional presidents as well as through industry standards to make data-driven planning decisions to reach…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Decision Making, Interviews, Administrative Principles
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Gregory, Anne; Skiba, Russell J.; Mediratta, Kavitha – Review of Research in Education, 2017
Race and gender disparities in school discipline and associated harms have been well documented for decades. Suspension from school can reduce instructional time and impede academic progress for students who may already be lagging in their achievement. This chapter offers a research-based framework for increasing equity in school discipline. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Race
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Steinberg, Matthew P.; Lacoe, Johanna – Education Next, 2017
What evidence supports the call for discipline reform? How might alternative strategies affect students and schools? In this article, the authors describe the critiques of exclusionary discipline and then examine the research base on which discipline policy reform rests. They also describe the alternative approaches that are gaining traction in…
Descriptors: Discipline, Discipline Policy, Administrative Principles, Suspension
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Meyers, Coby V.; Hambrick Hitt, Dallas – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2017
As the research literature on principals leading school turnaround grows, determining whether or not real differences between good, even effective, principals and turnaround principals becomes increasingly important. Recent federal government policy and investment established turnaround models that emphasize the role of the school principal,…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Principals, Success, Administrator Effectiveness
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Bradley, Andrew P.; Grice, Tim; Paulsen, Neil – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
In this paper we review current practices for developing and promoting academic leadership in universities. We consider the forms of leadership that are appropriate for academic organisations, while exploring the types of leadership favoured by recruitment and promotion committees. Using the Australian higher education context as a case study, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Training, Leadership Styles, College Administration
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van der Sluis, Margriet E.; Reezigt, Gerry J.; Borghans, Lex – Educational Policy, 2017
This article describes how the Dutch Department of Education incorporates New Public Management (NPM) principles in educational policy, and whether conflicts of interest between the Department and schools cause deviations from NPM. We reviewed policy documents and performed secondary analyses on school data. Educational policy focuses on output…
Descriptors: Public Administration, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Departments
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Louw, Jonathan – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
The institutionalisation of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in business schools involves a normatively challenging change project. Drawing on the institutional work and emotional labour literatures, this paper reports on the findings of a qualitative study into the emotional labour that underpins the…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries, Burnout
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Woods, Philip A. – Management in Education, 2016
A much greater understanding is needed of power in the practice of distributed leadership. This article explores how the concept of social authority might be helpful in achieving this. It suggests that the practice of distributed leadership is characterized by multiple authorities which are constructed in the interactions between people. Rather…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Transformational Leadership, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
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Anichkin, Eugene S. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article deals with reasons for formation, nature and specifics of the constitutionally legal policy of modern Russia. The special attention is spared to the exposure of the aim, long-term and short-term tasks, and principles of national constitutionally legal policy. The functions of constitutionally legal policy are separately considered:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constitutional Law, Legal Responsibility, Political Power
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Davidson, Shelby; Butcher, Jennifer T. – School Leadership Review, 2017
Covey (1990) suggested that to achieve success in leadership, one must identify core values and principles and ensure that managerial and organizational systems are aligned with these values and principles. These values explained by Covey in principle-centered leadership are built upon the foundation principles of trustworthiness at the personal…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Superintendents, Educational Administration, Administrative Principles
Stone, Douglas; David-Lang, Jenn – Educational Leadership, 2017
School leaders need to be able to give and receive feedback--to give it skillfully to teachers, and to receive it skillfully from, well, everyone. Most educators agree that feedback can be necessary and helpful--yet the unending cascade of new directives governing feedback often feel like a waste of time. In this article, the authors offer…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Administrator Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Coaching (Performance)
Tucker, Cheryl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Institute of Medicine (2011) challenged nursing to ensure the nursing workforce includes a sufficient number of academic nurse leaders, nurse educators, and doctorally prepared nurses for the future healthcare needs of the people of the United States. National data reveals a fragile supply of academic nurse educators and leaders. This tenuous…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Nursing Education, Evidence Based Practice, Guidance Programs
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