Faculty development has been evolving in focus and form over the past five decades. Originally organized around sabbatical leaves, faculty development now offers a wide array of programs and involves a growing body of highly professional, deeply dedicated professionals. As both faculty members and faculty developers with over fifty collective…

In a number of European countries, the recognition of the university's key role in the evolution of the knowledge society--and in the identification and solving of political, socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural problems--has led to radical reforms of higher education systems. Denmark has implemented the most radical reforms of the region in…

The purpose of this report is to review empirical evidence on the relationship between the faculty senate and the bargaining agent. A review of the literature concerning the impact of faculty bargaining indicates that there is little published research to support or reject hypotheses concerning the impact of faculty bargaining on senates. As a…

The growing concern with governance in higher education has focuses attention on the concepts of influence, power, authority, and control as defined on the educational setting. (Author)

This document provides an analytical survey of interinstitutional cooperation from the theories of organizational change and education. Section I poses the major questions for analysis and reviews some analytical perspectives relevant to the topic. Section II is an overview of several major facets of the phenomenon, including definitions of…

A study of 80 university graduate departments explores how the structure of knowledge in scientific fields might affect the functioning of university departments and the activities of individual scientists. (Author)

The traditional university structure has come to be seen as an obstacle to necessary changes in education and research in Sweden. Reforms initiated by the Swedish Parliament have focused mainly on the overall control of university organization; less change appears in the direct production of education and research. A project underway at the…

Reviews series and problems faced by the educational administrator training program in the School of Education at Stanford University. (AM)

College administrators must understand staff development as an integral part of the total process of organizational or institutional development. A six-stage paradigm is suggested as one conceptual framework within which a college may identify and act upon its staff development needs. (Editor/LBH)

A brief annotated list of recommended readings for the student services manager on the topic of applying management techniques is presented. (Author)

Explores both historical and contemporary definitions of action research. Describes the process and goals of action research in the tradition of Lewin. Presents a case study of an action-research project involving two teams in a high-technology corporation that depicts the process in action. (Author/CCM)

Human resource capacity has become a critical issue for contemporary universities as a result of increasing pressures from governments and global markets. As a consequence, particularly where the institution is the employer, changes are occurring in the expectations of staff and institutions about employment terms and conditions, as well as the…

This paper describes briefly general characteristics of the higher educational system in Poland and in Eastern Europe with emphasis on the features and characteristic elements that determine the organization and goals of higher education. Discussion also includes the functions, goals, and tasks of higher education; access to higher education; the…