This article suggests that trustees give the same high level of thoughtful consideration to selecting the board chair as they give to filling the presidency. More than the routine filling of a vacancy, the process for naming the board's next chair amounts to the selection of a governance team. The board's most important responsibility is not only…

Areas of role conflict between classroom teachers and administrators are educational expertise, authority structure and professional status, and ambivalence toward the leadership concept. Approaches to conflict resolution are defining the role of curriculum supervisor as a service function to teachers, empathy in role taking, and adoption of…

A developmental framework for initiating group counseling and psychotherapy is presented. On the basis of existing evidence, client risk, responsibility, and group structure were postulated as basic ingredients affecting early group development. Client exposure to levels of personal risk and responsibility most conducive to group development can…

The tendency to organize nursing curricula on the basis of the specific health care setting rather than the nursing process does not represent very sound preparation. Experiences should be incorporated to socialize students into the world of evolving functions, and the educator's perceptions of those functions has real significance. (Author/AJ)

Suggests studying the roles of women through literary analysis as a means of increasing student awareness of the repression and stereotyping that has occurred over the centuries and been recorded by writers. (RB)

Gives statistical tables on the effectiveness of subject matter specialists. (GB)

The prestige of the universities, their autonomy, and the current reversal of their fortunes are explained by an analysis of their role as a stabilizing mechanism for the labor market and the unwillingness of the public to pay the price of maintaining this mechanism. (DM)

Communication between teachers and counselors would be facilitated if role definitions of each group were clearly understood. The onus of communication of the counselor's role has been placed upon the counselor. It is being suggested here that teacher education programs should share the responsibility of transmitting an awareness of the school…

This article presents a very positive example of how counseling psychologists can respond to the personal problems of women, once they accept the need for women to develop new skills. (Author)

Presents a summary, some conclusions, and implications of a study designed to identify professors whose main concerns have been directed toward the administration of education, where they are located, what kinds of beliefs they hold, what role orientations they have, and what characteristics are related to their role orientations. (Author)

It is argued that the motive for the wide investigation of sex differences in reading is the tacit assumption among educators and researchers that boys should be superior to girls in everything that counts. (Author/KM)