Instructional leadership remains a complicated and debated issue for education. In fact, traditional theories of leadership from within both education and the organizational sciences increasingly face criticism. Drawing from ideas applicable to differentiated contexts of learning, this article develops an alternative model of instructional…

This document reviews the concept of government within the university structure. Three phases of university government are discussed. The first section concerns the distribution of power within the university. Power competition among (a) trustees and administrators, (b) faculty, and (c) students is reviewed. The second section looks closely at the…

Elements of effective management that a higher education institution can learn from corporate counterparts include feedback from the public, taking higher education's work seriously, and being toughmindedly optimistic, but it is necessary to emphasize the content of higher education as much as its form and operation. (MSE)

This study concentrates on the major organizational change of a massive university during its fight for survival. Three intellectual themes interweave as they form a framework to examine the problems of organizational change. (Author/RK)

One methodology for strategic planning and management is described along with related process concerns. If institutions are to plan well, they must conduct a review of their values, ambitions, and image, and they must examine the nature of the external environment in which they operate. (MLW)

It is argued that institutions of higher education do not have the organizational capability to enable them to respond to expected external changes in a productive, planned systematic way. Strategic planning is seen as the appropriate mechanism through which institutions can adjust and adapt to new environmental requirements. (MLW)

The development of academic planning is traced from its origins in medieval Europe to its role in today's university. Several styles of academic planning in the United States are described, the role of the executive is discussed, and a definition of contemporary academic planning is offered. (BH)

Total Quality Management is described as a means for developing institutionwide participation in planning and implementing a continuous college improvement process and is contrasted with more traditional student outcomes assessment. Examples of using this approach to effect process improvement, comprehensive ownership and responsibility,…

The problems created by declining enrollments and fiscal stringencies have brought about a "new reality" for postsecondary institutions in Ontario and other Canadian provinces. The lean future that institutions face requires clear articulation and communication of institutional goals, retraining and reallocation of redundant academic…