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Aveni, Maria – College and University, 2019
In today's financially strained higher education landscape, the student services infrastructure is often supported by fewer staff, less money, less experience, and less knowledge. Gone are the days when higher education staff professionals acquired the necessary education pieces, apprenticed in positions, and waited patiently for promotions. Most…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Personnel Services, Economic Climate, Retrenchment
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Wall, Katie – Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, 2017
If Gray is willing to speak, it made me think, then why shouldn't I? And why shouldn't you? This article is a response to Tonia Gray's 2016 article "The 'F' word: Feminism in outdoor education" by utilizing Sara Ahmed's newly published 2017 book "Living a Feminist Life." In "Living a Feminist Life," Ahmed works to…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Females, Feminism, Work Environment
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Urban, Mathias; Vandenbroeck, Michel; Van Laere, Katrien; Lazzari, Arianna; Peeters, Jan – European Journal of Education, 2012
The close connection between the quality of provision for young children and professionalisation of the field has long been supported by international research. That the two are inseparable aspects of one picture is beginning to become accepted at European policy level, as evident in recent high level EU policy documents. This article explores the…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Rosa, Rafael – Journal of Museum Education, 2009
Museum education leaders often find themselves thrust into greater responsibility without an opportunity to prepare themselves for the challenges ahead. In this article, I discuss my own struggles transitioning from manager of a specific program area to oversight of an entire education department. This transition happened unexpectedly, and the…
Descriptors: Museums, Instructional Leadership, Personal Narratives, Teaching Methods
Roberts, Nella A.; Rocco, Tonette S. – Online Submission, 2008
The transition to management is one of the most difficult challenges first-time managers face--almost half fail. First-time managers may experience disorienting dilemmas that trigger transformative learning. HRD (human resource development) practitioners can assist in reducing the failure rate of first-time managers when they better understand the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Human Resources, Professional Development, Personnel Management
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Sherwood, Frank P. – Public Administration Review, 1997
Governmental professionalism is declining. There are many more political appointees in the bureaucracy and the environment has not been supportive or trusting. Public officials can play a role in restoring the environment for professionalism. (JOW)
Descriptors: Government (Administrative Body), Politics, Professional Development, Public Service
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Rosenholtz, Susan J. – Elementary School Journal, 1989
Identifies critical dimensions of the social organization of schools associated with teachers' commitment: rewards, task autonomy and discretion, learning opportunities, and efficacy. Suggests policy recommendations necessary to develop a successful teacher induction program. (RJC)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Burnout
Trimbur, John; Cambridge, Barbara – Writing Program Administration, 1988
Discusses the Wyoming Conference Resolution, which calls on the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee to formulate professional standards for postsecondary writing teachers; and set up grievance procedures against, and to establish means to censure, institutions which fail to comply with these standards. Appends…
Descriptors: Position Papers, Postsecondary Education, Professional Development, Salaries
Schettler, Joel – Training, 2002
Assessment centers have typically been used for job candidate screening and selection. Now their methodologies are being used for succession planning, executive development, training needs assessment, and strategic work force realignment. (JOW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Assessment Centers (Personnel), Needs Assessment, Professional Development
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Schultheis, Robert A. – Business Education Forum, 1979
A teacher who feels secure, wanted, and recognized by the administration and the community, who is provided with adequate working conditions, including small classes and effective work space, and who is supported and encouraged to travel, study, and experiment is likely to behave in a highly professional manner and be very productive. (LRA)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Job Satisfaction, Motivation, Professional Development
ADE Bulletin, 2002
Considers how excessive reliance on an adjunct faculty can damage individual faculty members, students, institutions, and the profession. Urges college and university administrators to make new and concerted efforts to eliminate excessive and irresponsible adjunct faculty appointments, to improve employment conditions for essential adjunct faculty…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, Administrator Guides, Educational Improvement, English Departments
Laird, Dugan – Training and Development Journal, 1980
The author claims that excellence will return to the workplace when every organization, corporate and bureaucratic, and when academia and associations offer professional, technical, and skills training for their own members. Discusses the quest for professionalism, and why accountability should be considered an element of professionalism. (CT)
Descriptors: Accountability, Federal Aid, Professional Development, Professional Training
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Rutledge, Diane B. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1981
Recommends that library managers make inexpensive but enlightened changes in administrative policies and work environment to encourage professional development of permanent staff. References are listed. (RAA)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Policy, Administrators, Higher Education
Balinky, Jean L. – 1985
The most difficult part of being a school psychologist is working in a school. Demands for accountability and staff productivity from federal, state, and local funding sources can lead to a lack of flexibility in educational strategy, increased pressure to place students in special education programs, and restrictions on the role of the school…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support, Job Satisfaction
Boyle, Peter S. – School Business Affairs, 1996
Suggestions for developing a creative and synergistic organization include the following: believe that people want to do their effective best in their work; communicate with people face-to-face; share virtually all information regularly and freely; use humor to create an upbeat work atmosphere; and always establish a timeline when asking someone…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship
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