The bureaucratic and adaptive models of administration are compared, and the adaptive style is found most appropriate for research administration, providing a necessary level of organizational consistency and control while allowing for the unexpected and promoting productivity. Elements of organization, operations, and communications are…

The bureaucratic and adaptive models of administration are compared, and the adaptive style is found most appropriate for research administration, providing a necessary level of organizational consistency and control while alllowing for the unexpected and promoting productivity. Elements of organization, operations, and communications are…

In this article, Black studies is described as both searching for and responding to meaning in the human experience through the Black experience. Based upon Thompson's distinction of ideational and operational roles in any healthy group, a model for administering Black studies programs at the university level is proposed. (GC)

A survey of 90 department heads in six Israeli universities concerning their role perceptions, role fulfillment, and satisfaction with role fulfillment found five main role factors and significant differences between fulfillment of roles and the desire to fulfill them. (MSE)

The 1973 seminar focused on improving administrative activities of State vocational education agencies, and emphasis was given to the processes and innovative concepts related to the maintenance and improvement of administrative activities. Guidelines and position papers were presented in the following areas: (1) The Role of Vocational Education…

The impact of government policy initiatives on public-sector further education (FE) and FE lecturers in the United Kingdom was examined through a case study of a small group of full-time creative arts lecturers at a large urban FE college. A qualitative research approach was used. Data were collected through the following methods: participant…