In this address, the Executive Director of The Higher Learning Commission ("Commission") shares his thoughts about the renovation of the Commission as it prepares for the future. The Commission is an organization of great integrity, which has worked for successful renewal in the past, and on this basis it will be possible to build the…

Academic departments across the nation must reinvent new forms of collegiality and become more outward-oriented, more focused on results, and more entrepreneurial. They must develop new systems to reward their members, enhance productivity, and assure the quality of their work. Change strategies in the literature fall into six categories: (1)…

A 1997 study assessed the impact of welfare reform as reported by Head Start staff served by the Great Lakes Resource Access Project (GLRAP), a federally funded program providing training and technical assistance to Head Start staff in the area of disability services. The states served by the project are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,…

Organizational behavior can be represented as a rank-weighted average of five environmental dependencies with possible coercive actions by regulatory agencies and those the organization is least dependent on. (Author)

Three aspects of the problem of library reorganization are considered with specific reference to scientific and technological libraries: the politics of centralization; the concept of accessibility; and the interaction of science and technology. (28 references) (Author)

Malfunctioning organizations do not facilitate the accomplishment of the purposes of their members in a number of ways and for a number of reasons. This paper used Maslow's hierarchy of needs model in an attempt to describe one view of that malfunction. Leadership is examined briefly as a functioning organization's facilitating arrangement.…

The 1971 annual report by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) is highlighted. The report deals with AIP activities during 1971, including changes in publishing methods, new products from the physics-information division, and internal reorganization for better service. (PR)

Discusses problems involving the replacement of expatriate managers with national managers.'' (Author)

The trainer or internal change agent in a firm undergoing an organizational development program may be instrumental in designing the implementation of a change strategy. Proposes a situational change typology which may be of use as a training instrument. (Author)

The development of two midwest public junior colleges prior to 1960 is reported with a forecast of the new style college they are becoming in the 1970s. Similarities and differences are contrasted with a third school in California. (MN)

Outlines staff reorganization carried out at Olivet College-- a system well adapted to the small non-public college that is faced with rapid growth. (AD)

Five diagrams illustrate expected trends toward simplified organizational patterns in American institutions of higher education. (MS)