In college and university fundraising, mergers and initial public offerings can create donor-deadlines windows of opportunity during which prospective donors can make tax-favored major gifts. Development officers need to monitor their prospects' holdings for these deadlines. Categories of donor prospects to consider and indicators to watch are…

Discusses the necessity for incorporating current technology in today's college residence halls to meet the more diverse and continued activities of its students. Technology addressed covers data networking and telecommunications, heating and cooling systems, and fire-safety systems. (GR)

A survey of 192 managers and professionals in the Quebec public sector indicated that the absence or inadequacy of practices linked to career planning, development, and support, as well as lack of opportunity to play new roles and participate in work groups, accentuates the perception of career plateauing. (JOW)

Professional expertise and authority are increasingly eroded by the demands of the institutional delivery system in which they practice. Professional services are now typically delivered by expert systems not individuals. Continuing educators must reframe their understanding of context in order to address the new conditions of practice. (SK)

Analyzes the Asian economic crisis and media messages about it. Promotes education for sustainability, which has broader goals of social transformation. Describes new forms of social learning that are necessary to resolve the global crises of the environment and development. (SK)

Study examines the relationship between job satisfaction and locus of control among student affairs administrators and academic administrators in higher education. Also examines demographic variables of ethnicity, gender, age, educational level, and type of educational institution to determine how they affected the relationships between the main…

Investment returns on college and university endowments for 1997 was the sixth double-digit gain in the 1990s and the highest since 1986. Fiscal year 1998 is experiencing greater market volatility, with more modest returns predicted. Institutions with endowments of over $1 billion have increased from 20 to 25 in one year; this group holds nearly…

Describes Working to Achieve Visions of Excellence (WAVE), the change process used at the Savings Bank of Utica to achieve optimum team management. (JOW)

Case studies of seven Australian manufacturers found the following: (1) relationship between training and deliberate business strategy; (2) more training in more-automated firms; (3) relationship between work form (autonomy/control) and training type (behavioral/technical); (4) more training associated with less-formal labor relations; and (5)…

Discusses the organizational and contractual concepts behind making a school's central plant's production more reliable and cost effective. A description of the Energy Services Coalition's contribution to the process and its services are highlighted. (GR)

Explores attitudes among Canadian news workers, finding that more professionalism, a less formal and smaller organization, media sector, and several social attributes lead to more job satisfaction. Shows that newspaper workers were most satisfied due to a combination of intrinsic factors, such as autonomy, authority, and control of work; and…

Many diversity programs ask too much of managers, lack tangible standards, are the wrong tool, or may encourage stereotyping. Managing diversity requires communicating commitment to fair treatment, focusing on commonalities, prohibiting unacceptable conduct, teaching rules of civil behavior, and defining the issue as one of business risk…

The upwardly mobile economy has propelled earnings on college endowments into double digits for the sixth consecutive year, with average returns on investments of 18.2%. The range was 5.6 to 38%, with the highest performer having 85.1% of investments in stocks and 13.6% in domestic bonds. On average, large endowments performed better than small…

This case study, of an application to facilitate dispatch work in a large organization, describes a history of collaboration and conflict between information systems professionals and end users as system designers. A Social Construction of Technology approach is used to examine the mixture of cooperation and conflict between the departments.…

Describes characteristics of a questioning culture in organizational development. Addresses questions on leading; learning; and information access as leverage. Lists fundamental employee questions that exist in every organization, and describes two positive effects that occur when these fundamental questions are recognized and become the overall…