In an effort to eliminate the part-time teaching track for all faculty except those who hold professional jobs outside academe, Georgia State University created 95 new full-time faculty positions and filled 62 of these positions with former part-time faculty. For the time being, however, all the positions are non-tenure-track "visiting"…

Discusses what the compensation manager at a diverse college or university can do with scant resources to meet the varied compensation needs of the institution. Offers as an example the University of Florida system, which has a flexible policy that incorporates new concepts into training programs and offers new options in consultations. (MSE)

Discusses the process of infusing ethics into courses across the graduate-level public administration curriculum, focusing on three areas: barriers to teaching ethics in public administration; a six-step method for incorporating ethics across the curriculum; and applying this method to overcome obstacles within programs, using organizational…

Four levels of authority within the educational decision-making structure in seven European countries and states for primary and lower secondary education are analyzed, and results are presented from a study of decision making. This study indicates a slightly higher degree of school autonomy in England/Wales, the Netherlands, and Sweden. (SLD)

A case study uses the concept of second-order organizational change to conceptualize the nature of change associated with infusing multicultural education within a large college of education. A four-year process is described, in which qualitative changes to the organization's culture occurred. Key elements of change included the values and norms…

An interview with Marie McDemmond, president of Norfolk State University (Virginia) and the first woman to head a Virginia public university, examines her response to the university's hidden fiscal crisis, her conception of shared leadership, her experience as a woman administrator, controversies over her spending choices, and administrative…

Considers strategies for the implementation of quality improvement in libraries. Highlights include structured quality improvement, especially Total Quality Management; organizational change; customer focus; continuous improvement; data-based decision making; systems thinking; employee involvement in decision making; diffusion of innovation;…

Colleges can avoid getting stuck with obsolescent and inadequate technology if governing boards can distinguish between the essential and the grandiose. This requires being clear about the purposes of the needed technology, being realistic about the outcomes, building full cost into budgets, involving faculty and staff in its use, and taking the…

The development and five-year history of the University of Minnesota's environmental scanning effort, a strategic approach to institutional management, are discussed. Over time, scanning efforts became less theory-based and failed to become institutionalized. Inherent limitations in the organizational structure and culture of educational…

The recent experience of the business school at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville in overcoming structural obstacles to curriculum development is discussed. Drawing on an automobile industry model for organizational change, the school used an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum design and implementation. Characteristics of the…

Discusses library collection development, comparing the good old days of volume counts, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)/Research Libraries Group (RLG) Conspectus, and fund allocation with the present of document delivery, consortia, electronic access to full text journals. Contends that the electronic world is not supplanting the paper…

Explores the need for agreement between universities and their employees concerning their mutual obligations in terms of a regulated work contract, and the creation of separate structures for teaching and research, which by relying on market mechanisms both internal and external to the university, would enable the latter to tackle its educational…

A study investigated the circumstances and views of 16 individuals 8 years after participation in one agency's conversion from a sheltered workshop to an exclusively community employment service. Most participants associated the agency's changeover with long-term, personal benefits, including community employment opportunities, increased income,…

This commentary discusses whether the American Association on Mental Retardation should change its name. It reviews the history of professional terminology regarding individuals with mental retardation and stresses the need for the AAMR to change its name using terms that envision and announce a social purpose for the organization. (Contains…

Uses a content analysis of case studies to explore solutions to the barriers faced by organizations when using distance education. Highlights include technical expertise, support, and infrastructure; administrative structure; organizational change; evaluation and effectiveness; social interaction and quality; student support services; feeling…