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Rebecca Wyland; Nancy Hanson-Rasmussen; Frazier Clark – Journal of Management Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to present an instructional innovation called the Structure-Culture Alignment Activity, which leads students through the process of aligning cultural values pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DEI) to two important structural elements, formalization and centralization. Using decision making, team…
Descriptors: Diversity, Equal Education, Inclusion, Cultural Relevance
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Keddie, Amanda; Holloway, Jessica – School Leadership & Management, 2020
This paper explores issues of social justice in relation to the practice of two principals from two Australian public schools. The stories of these principals are set against a policy backdrop in Australia that has seen renewed emphasis on school autonomy reform, on the one hand, and heightened external accountability and compliance, on the other.…
Descriptors: Institutional Autonomy, School Administration, Centralization, Accountability
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Currie-Knight, Kevin – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2012
American public education has become increasingly centralized over the last hundred and fifty years. Everything from curricular objectives and assessment tools to teacher certification criteria (and, often, textbook decisions) are being made at the state level rather than the county, district, or school level. Increasingly, teachers are told what…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Administrative Organization, Theories, Centralization
Zeppos, Nicholas S. – Trusteeship, 2010
To get a feel for the last time Vanderbilt University confronted economic volatility and stress similar to what U.S. colleges and universities have experienced over the past two years, the author carefully reviewed his predecessors' notes. His conclusion: the early 1930s. That was the last time a chancellor at Vanderbilt University detailed…
Descriptors: Universities, Medical Schools, Educational Finance, Administrative Organization
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Onosko, Joe – Democracy & Education, 2011
President Barack Obama's Race to the Top (RTT) is a profoundly flawed educational reform plan that increases standardization, centralization, and test-based accountability in our nation's schools. Following a brief summary of the interest groups supporting the plan, who is currently participating in this race, why so many states voluntarily…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Centralization, Accountability, Educational Planning
English, Fenwick W. – The Practitioner, 1989
School-site management embodies the concept that decisions should be made at the lowest possible level in organizations and intends that no decision be made without the input of those affected by them. The concept also suggests the empowerment of individual units of the system, particularly, the teachers. Centralization versus decentralization is…
Descriptors: Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Kemerer, Frank R.; And Others – Journal of the College and University Personnel Association, 1981
The administration of higher education is increasingly taking on the characteristics of corporate management. Personnel decision making has become more formal and centralized. The shift to more policy-dictated personnel practices is occurrring on both nonunionized and unionized campuses. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Centralization, Collective Bargaining, College Administration, College Faculty
Chaffee, Ellen Earle – 1983
Five models of organizational decision-making are described, and a case study of the rational model as seen in the budget process at Stanford University during the 1970s is presented. Several issues are addressed to help administrators who are interested in increasing the organization's rational decision-making. The five models are as follows: the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Centralization, College Administration
Gleason, William; Moldovan, John – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1987
The process and experiences associated with strategic planning in a recently decentralized administrative information systems environment are described. Background information on why Virginia Commonwealth University decentralized the authority, responsibility, and accountability for the delivery of administrative information services to major…
Descriptors: Accountability, Centralization, College Administration, Data Processing
Papale, Antimo – Phi Delta Kappan, 1981
Centralized collective bargaining has increased teachers' salaries and provided better working conditions and benefits in Quebec. But it has also spawned a number of troublesome consequences that promote conflict. (Author)
Descriptors: Arbitration, Centralization, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Chaffee, Ellen Earle – 1981
Issues concerning whether to centralize or decentralize decision-making are addressed, with applications for colleges. Centralization/decentralization (C/D) must be analyzed with reference to a particular decision. Three components of C/D are locus of authority, breadth of participation, and relative contribution by the decision-maker's staff. C/D…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, College Administration, Decentralization
Iram, Yaacov – 1989
The higher education system in Israel is discussed, noting that tertiary education in that country makes a clear distinction between higher (university and academic) education and postsecondary education that is largely vocational. The Planning and Grants Committee (PGC) of the Council for Higher Education is responsible for the budgets of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Centralization, Decision Making, Foreign Countries
Olson, Mark – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1986
The role of distributed computing continues to pose challenges, from organizational strategies to definitions and fundamental understandings of the terms. Concerns within the framework of management changes and organizational structures are addressed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Centralization, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Environment
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Foote, Edward T., II – New Directions for Higher Education, 1988
The adoption and systematic use of planning guidelines and the pursuit of a disciplined strategy for implementation have provided the University of Miami with a powerful process for shaping its future. Decentralized and responsive centralized planning, defining the planning process, and guidelines used by the University of Miami are presented.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Centralization, College Environment
Maddox, Roberta; And Others – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1983
The development of a State University System of Florida data management system is discussed with special emphasis on its user controlled aspects. Major components described include system documentation, computer data files, regional data centers, computing networks, and uniform transaction systems. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Budgets, Centralization, College Administration, Data Processing
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