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Janne Elo Ed.; Michael Uljens Ed. – Educational Governance Research, 2024
This Open Access book addresses the theoretical grounding of the pedagogical dimensions of higher education leadership and its empirical study. The book's general point of departure is that educational leadership is a multi-level phenomenon, operating as policy work on a transnational and national level, as educational leadership on various…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Administration, Leadership, Educational Research
Webber, Karen L., Ed.; Zheng, Henry, Ed. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020
The continuing importance of data analytics is not lost on higher education leaders, who face a multitude of challenges, including increasing operating costs, dwindling state support, limits to tuition increases, and increased competition from the for-profit sector. To navigate these challenges, savvy leaders must leverage data to make sound…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, Learning Analytics, Higher Education
Johnson, Royel M., Ed.; Anya, Uju, Ed.; Garces, Liliana M., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2022
The current socio-political moment--rife with racial tensions and overt bigotry--has exacerbated longstanding racial inequities in higher education. While educational scholars have developed conceptual tools and offered data-informed recommendations for rooting out racism in campus policies and practices, this work is largely inaccessible to the…
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Racial Differences, Higher Education
Katy E. Chapman, Editor; David E. Beard, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…
Descriptors: International Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Associations, Decision Making
Bleiklie, Ivar, Ed.; Enders, Jürgen, Ed.; Lepori, Benedetto, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2017
This book asks how modern universities are organized and managed, and questions whether 30 years of university reforms have resulted in stronger managerial structures and leadership control. It further asks whether current organisational and decision-making structures can be explained by public reform policies. The book offers a coherent,…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Change, College Administration, Decision Making
Lane, Jason E., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2014
The Big Data movement and the renewed focus on data analytics are transforming everything from healthcare delivery systems to the way cities deliver services to residents. Now is the time to examine how this Big Data could help build smarter universities. While much of the cutting-edge research that is being done with Big Data is happening at…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Higher Education
Finnigan, Kara S., Ed.; Daly, Alan J., Ed. – Springer, 2014
This book includes a set of rigorous and accessible studies on the topic of "research evidence" from a variety of levels and educational vantage points. It also provides the reader with thoughtful commentaries from leading thinkers in the field. The complex process of acquiring, interpreting, and using research evidence makes for a rich…
Descriptors: Educational Research, School Districts, Research Utilization, Evidence Based Practice
Thomas, Nancy L., Ed. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
What needs to be done to strengthen U.S. democracy, to make it work the way it should? Each generation of Americans asks some version of this question, but this book offers an answer that recognizes the heightened urgency and hopefulness in the way individuals are asking the question today. At the heart of the debate is a conviction that…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Academic Freedom, Democracy, Governance
Manna, Paul, Ed.; McGuinn, Patrick, Ed. – Brookings Institution Press, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in areas such as standards, testing, teachers, or…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Failure, Decision Making
Blankstein, Alan M.; Houston, Paul D.; Cole, Robert W. – Corwin, 2010
Offering key concepts about how the informed use of data can translate into highly effective school leadership, this seventh volume in "The Soul of Educational Leadership" series demonstrates how educational leaders can apply data strategically to strengthen school leadership and significantly improve professional learning, students' learning…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Instructional Leadership, Data, Staff Development
Daly, Alan J., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
"Social Network Theory and Educational Change" offers a provocative and fascinating exploration of how social networks in schools can impede or facilitate the work of education reform. Drawing on the work of leading scholars, the book comprises a series of studies examining networks among teachers and school leaders, contrasting formal…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Network Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Technology
American Council of Life Insurance, New York, NY. – 1979
New and cheaper means of acquisition and distribution are giving individuals easier access to information. This has contributed to dissatisfaction with corporate governance and business management and is encouraging the growth of new types of interest groups that are seeking a voice in the private sector. This may lead to a reversal of the trend…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Business, Decision Making
Makolandra, Joseph; Bezy, Kevin G.; Delp, Cindy; Bizzell, Brad E.; Wray, Caroline; Jones, Forest; Womack, Janet; Hutton, Dawn; Jones, Asia; Wood-Setzer, Guylene; Williams, Seydric; Leonard, Nancy; Nicely, Ken; Wright, Linda; Pennington, Robert; Richardson, Tracy – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2009
Educational administrative practitioners evaluate theories, implement practices, and refine leadership strategies daily. The exploration of the leadership gap between theory and praxis is a quantum undertaking. Leadership from the educational perspective takes many forms and presents many challenges. This document examines leadership from several…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Praxis
Seldin, Peter; Higgerson, Mary Lou – 2002
This book offers administrators a reliable guide to creating a document that evidences performance. The book tells what the administrative portfolio is and how it can be created and used. Part 1 contains 12 chapters on creating and using the administrative portfolio: (1) "Changing Roles and Expectations of Academic Administrators"; (2) "The…
Descriptors: Administrators, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Personnel Evaluation
Ryan, T. Antoinette, Ed. – 1975
This publication brings together seven papers exemplifying the systems approach to educational decision making. The first discusses the need for inclusion of constituent values in educational decision making strategies to properly apply systems theory concepts. In the second, which addresses systems design for problem solving in schools,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning