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Peer reviewedMargetson, Don – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 1997
System-wide assessment in higher education can be influenced by political issues, which are in turn preoccupied with market forces and technological development. This generates a climate inimical to ethical quality and conflicts with academic work. If academic work is to make its best contribution to society, administration must move beyond…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, Educational Quality, Ethics
Doyle, Ken J.; Seagren, Alan T. – 1984
The impact on an organization's capacity to respond inevitably to changing needs of the many variables affecting the organization is considered, along with a framework for developing innovations, especially in a time when colleges are facing a period of contraction. A contingency approach to the management of innovation focuses on the influence of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Environment, College Planning
Peer reviewedSchulte, Laura E.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1991
Development and validation of the Ethical Climate Index, designed to measure perceived ethical climate of an institution's graduate and professional school programs, is described. The instrument was found to be valid and reliable, and variability was found in student perceptions of ethical climate across major academic areas. Research needs are…
Descriptors: College Environment, Ethical Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Download full textMessina, Robert C.; Fagans, Alice C. – 1992
Institutional change requires that "restraining" forces (those forces resisting change) be minimized and "driving" forces (those forces moving in the direction of change) be maximized. Lasting change involves broad-based staff participation in the change process; this requires the establishment of multiple feedback levels or…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, College Environment, College Outcomes Assessment
Smart, John C. – 2002
This study researched how the characteristics of higher learning institutions affect the persistence and learning of college students. The author examined the extent to which perceptions of students' academic, personal, and career development and their satisfaction with their educational experiences in the two-year college are related to measures…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Effectiveness, College Environment, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedShavlik, Donna L.; Touchton, Judith G. – Educational Record, 1992
Recommendations for women's participation in higher education made in 1989 are revised and amended. Issues addressed include women's employment in higher education, women's education, women's studies, campus climate, institutional commitment to women's needs and concerns through administrative and educational policies, attention to families and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Change Strategies
