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Nehls, Kimberly – Innovative Higher Education, 2012
Capital campaigns are intense efforts to build the financial assets of an institution in a specified amount of time. This study provides an empirical view of how changes in leadership affected concomitant capital campaigns at ten colleges and universities. The transitions during these 10 campaigns influenced morale on campus, altered timing of the…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Publicity, Leadership, Administrative Change
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Davis, Geraldine – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2012
Early years professionals wrote about changes in their settings as part of their MA studies, and reflected on the use of theories of leadership in implementing these changes. This article describes a documentary analysis of the scripts produced. Initially basing the study in current knowledge of leadership and change in Early Years settings, the…
Descriptors: Leadership, Early Childhood Education, Content Analysis, Documentaries
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Hill, Duncan L. – College and University, 2010
Focusing on the current timetabling process at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), I apply David Wesson's theoretical framework in order to understand (1) how increasing enrollment interacts with a decentralized timetabling process to limit the flexibility of course schedules and (2) the resultant impact on educational quality. I then…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Leadership Styles, Scheduling, Organizational Change
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Sparrow, John; Tarkowski, Krystyna; Lancaster, Nick; Mooney, Michele – Education & Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report upon an initiative within a case study UK university to facilitate service innovation in small firms. The paper aims to outline how explicit use of such concepts has the potential to enhance the effectiveness of this form of university-industry interaction. Design/methodology/approach: The paper…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, School Business Relationship, Case Studies, Inquiry
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Phelps, James L. – Educational Considerations, 2008
The never-ending organizational challenge is to allocate available resources to best achieve its goals. Out of this fundamental question several models have evolved. One is a conceptual model--a way to think about how organizations operate. A second is a statistical model estimating the magnitude of relationships among goals and elements of the…
Descriptors: Productivity, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Organizational Change
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Willson, Richard – Planning for Higher Education, 2006
Planning approaches are in a dynamic relationship with organizational culture. This article uses a case study of academic planning at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona to draw a correspondence between types of organizational culture and planning approaches. The case study shows the differing conceptions of organizational culture held…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Educational Planning, Higher Education, Organizational Climate