Changes in higher education, particularly fragmentation of the academic workplace and shifts in faculty status and autonomy, have had a profound effect on faculty roles and professional identity. However, in the debate on change, faculty have important insights to offer concerning the nature of learning and institutional conditions supporting…

Analysis of how the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regulates college athletics outlines the organization's internal legislative process, examines current internal attempts to deregulate NCAA legislation, and looks at the future of such regulation in the face of organizational restructuring. The legislative process is seen as…

Presents two specific approaches to understanding multiculturalism--valuing diversity and taking proactive stances in regard to educating about diversity in society and in physical education and sport settings in particular. An adaptation of Chesler and Crowfoot's organizational stages of multiculturalism and Bennett's model of ethnocentric and…

Nineteen precis highlight concepts of managing change and people. Specific examples are provided from such companies as Texas Instruments, EMC, British Telecom, Cooper & Lybrands, MCB University Press, and the Royal Bank of Scotland. (SK)

Some organizational theorists use biological evolution as the theoretical base of their work. Many such theorists in business have applied a new view of evolution, that of punctuated equilibria, but those in higher education have not. The new theory has implications for leadership and change in college administration. (Author/MSE)

The University of Central Oklahoma integrated planning and budget processes, shifting the focus from the budget itself to goal-oriented, team management. Roles of faculty senate and deans in this process continue to evolve. Barriers to change within and outside the institution had to be overcome. (MSE)

Advancements in information technology have caused many colleges and universities to reconsider the organization of the units providing information services. Ranging from joint planning exercises to full vertical mergers, changes in organizational structure are powerful tools administrators can use to integrate and effectively manage information…

This summary of 1987 and 1988 seminar meetings on service delivery to people with blindness or visual impairments addresses: (1) service delivery systems (principles, the population served, and providers of services); and (2) the services provided, focusing on the blindness system as a system under siege. (DB)

Canada's recent public policy encouraging linkages between universities and corporations is transforming the structure and mission of the university system. An analysis focuses on economic, political, and institutional changes and discusses their effects on the organization of academic work, research, and the emerging image of the university as a…

Describes a four-character role-play exercise designed to show how employee and management resistance to change can hinder the implementation of an organizational change effort. The Jefferson Company is an old-line printing firm with new partners that must change its technology, equipment, and operating procedures in the face of increased…

In 1988, Indiana University's separate academic and administrative computing units were not responding to changing user demands. In merging and reorganizing the systems, the university tackled problems shared by many institutions and gathered information that can encourage and forewarn others in similar efforts. The project's history, process, and…

This article argues that academic advisors are well positioned to recommend new policies and programs in response to need for change in colleges. A method for advisors to propose and implement campus innovation is offered, and a case study illustrates the utility of this approach to bringing about change. (Author/MSE)

From current data on higher education finance, it is concluded that American colleges and universities have been extremely slow to recognize the depth of the current fiscal crisis, and that American higher education is beginning a transformation as significant as the one that occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. (MSE)

The need to restructure college administration, rather than simply cut costs selectively, is discussed. The experience of the five-campus Antioch University in reengineering its central administration's work to take advantage of advancing technology is chronicled, including both difficulties and successes. (MSE)

Major issues affecting the workplace of the twenty-first century include productivity growth, globalization, resistance to change, worker alienation, and telecommunications. Opposing views of technology are that (1) it will improve the economy and create jobs or (2) the majority of new jobs will not require high skills. (SK)