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Peer reviewedMiller, Bob W.; And Others – Community Services Catalyst, 1982
Recommends the Administrative Q'Sort for defining administrative roles and functions and eliminating conflicts within organizations. Uses the technique to describe the position of dean of community services at a community college via a listing of 60 job responsibilities grouped into nine priority categories. Discusses how the technique can be…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, College Administration, Continuing Education
Peer reviewedFleischauer, John F. – Educational Record, 1990
Management theories tend to simplify the complex needs, desires, motives, and abilities of teachers who are also counselors, researchers, planners, and parliamentarians. The task of the academic administrator is to seek coherence of goals and a commitment to student development by focusing disparate visions toward common ends. (MLW)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, College Administration, College Faculty
Download full textPrentice, Mary; Exley, Robert; Robinson, Gail – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2003
In the fall of 2000, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) received a three-year grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) to create and enhance service learning initiatives at community colleges across the country. Service learning combines community service with academic instruction, focusing on…
Descriptors: Deans, Community Colleges, Grants, Service Learning
Direct linkMoomaw, W. Edmund – New Directions for Higher Education, 1984
A chief academic officer must know how to initiate a process of change. A strategy for involving diverse groups, especially faculty, takes many forms. An examination of two approaches to academic leadership is presented: the bureaucratic model and the participation model. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators
Peer reviewedGmelch, Walter H.; Wolverton, Mimi; Wolverton, Marvin L.; Sarros, James C. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
Discusses the role of the academic dean and its conflicting pressures of administration and scholarship. Reports on the first phase of a study exploring the sources of stress experienced by 825 deans in both Australia and the United States. Analyzes findings in terms of a four-component managerial stress model and provides tables detailing deans'…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Administrator Role, College Administration, Cultural Differences
PDF pending restorationCasper, Irene G.; Morey, Ruth A. – 1977
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the student affairs administrator as a decision maker in the development and budgets within the organizational system of the university. A basic premise for the model at Temple University is that the role of the administrator is a key factor in solving those conflicts arising from human elements…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Deans, Decision Making
Seagren, Alan T.; And Others – 1980
Organizational matters and strategies useful in developing more effective collegiate summer sessions are discussed, and examples of some productive strategies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are reported. Four elements of organizational structure in higher education considered are organizational environment, mission and goals, governance…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Change Strategies
Peer reviewedKarlsson, Curt – Higher Education Management, 1996
Evolution of the relationship between academic and administrative functions in Swedish universities is traced over 30 years. Attention is given to a shift toward administrative power during a period of university democratization, and partial restoration of academic leadership in the 1990s. Two distinct patterns of administrative structure are…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Change Strategies
Oaklief, Charles R. – 1976
The applicability of the Critical Incidents Technique as a potential research methodology for those in adult and continuing education is demonstrated in the study of 19 selected Kansas junior-community colleges and their respective administrators (totaling 38) at the vice-president, dean, and director levels. The two populations included those…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility
