When the AGB task force on the state of the Presidency in American Higher Education was meeting last fall in Washington, D.C., to deliberate about the role of the academic presidency, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education convened across town to examine issues ranging from access to affordability to…

In the context of tribal colleges, accreditation is a complex issue. This study, which is a replication of a study by J. McDonald in 1982, is an examination of how the perceptions of tribal college faculty, staff, and governing board members toward the importance and impact of accreditation have changed since 1982. Surveys were administered to the…

This is a joint publication of the Community College League of California and the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. It presents 27 scenarios that illustrate effective participation in district and college governance. The scenarios represent situations that raise questions regarding the roles of key figures in governance, including…

Ontario's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology have been governed by the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities Act (MTCU) and related regulations and policies since their inception in 1965. In June 2002, the Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002 (OCAATA) was passed by the Ontario legislature; proclamation is…

Executive summary of a study that explored the role of student board members at two- and four-year institutions. The researcher mailed a survey to 590 randomly chosen student and non-student board members and received responses from 266 (45% return rate). Research insights, policy implications, and recommendations for the future were organized…

The participant's manual contains training materials for a national conference on sound financial management for agencies concerned with promoting independent living for people with disabilities. Preliminary materials include the conference agenda, background information about the trainers, and organizational information on Independent Living…

This book is designed to help leaders of higher education institutions set and negotiate compensation for academic presidents. Its central aim is to strengthen governing board decisions regarding presidential compensation, though it also focuses on other highly compensated institutional officers. The findings are based on interviews with…

In the mid-1990s the Board of Directors at the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST) fused four separate institutes and an administrative center to form a single postsecondary institute with a broad Provincial focus. From this experience, the Board of Directors formed a governance strategy of policy and procedure…

This technical guide is a training tool to help members of Head Start governing bodies, policy groups, agency directors, and Head Start and Early Head Start directors understand their responsibilities in a Head Start environment that emphasizes shared decision-making. The guide offers a framework for clarifying expectations and provides concrete,…

The author discusses three types of instructional modes and offers some suggestions on how concord might prevail in tomorrow's schooling. (Author)

Author challenges educational administrators and school boards to provide direction for school systems or yield their authority. (RK)

Tightening State budgets, political ambitions and academic frustrations have marked the decline of public higher education in California. (Editor)

It is increasingly difficult to interest qualified persons in membership on college boards because of the increasing attacks by student, faculty and public pressure groups. (Editor/IR)

A controversy over whether university faculty are "employees" within the meaning of the National Labor Relations Act is discussed. The U.S. Supreme Court in NLRB v. Yeshiva University ruled that faculty members are "managers." (Available from: Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, $4.00) (Author/MLW)