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Download full textIngram, Richard T. – 1980
Financial difficulties in colleges and universities are discussed, with a focus on a paper by Frank M. Bowen and Lyman A. Glenny, who suggest that college administrators are facing up to their responsibilities regarding fiscal and other constraints. They offer suggestions to improve policies and procedures for institutions, for governing and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Agency Role, College Administration, College Planning
Splittgerber, Fred L.; Allen, Harvey A. – 1981
Opinions about what makes an effective middle school were elicited by this study in which 153 principals of exemplary middle schools and 35 national leaders of the middle school movement were queried. Questionnaires asked about the functions and characteristics of middle schools regarding (1) students, (2) teachers, (3) principals, (4) curriculum,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Basic Skills, Curriculum
Robinson, H. F.; And Others – 1977
The first of four presentations in this collection dealing with student mobility focuses on the role of the university in improving vertical mobility. Questions concerning the impact of community colleges on baccalaureate programs, the demand for vertical mobility, and means of improving mobility are addressed. Particular problems of Western…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Role, Articulation (Education), College Role
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. – 1979
Adapted from Idaho's original Parents in Reading program, the materials in this booklet are designed for use by school administrators who want to begin a positive program that involves parents in reading. Various sections contain samples of board policy statements, press releases, and radio commercials; samples of letters to parents new to the…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Early Reading, Elementary Education
Owens, Thomas R.; Evans, Warren D. – 1977
This manual was designed for the administrator who has the responsibility for conducting all or part of an evaluation or is responsible for using evaluation results in program planning. The manual provides step-by-step guidelines to help: identify the purposes and audiences of an evaluation; prepare a basic description of the program or activity;…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Decision Making
SPLAWN, ROBERT E.; STOKER, W.M. – 1967
ADOPTION OF THE NONGRADED SYSTEM FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS NECESSITATES EXTENSIVE CHANGES FOR BOTH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE COMMUNITY. A SET OF ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDELINES IS PROPOSED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NONGRADED SYSTEM, AND THE ROLE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR IS EXAMINED IN RELATION TO (1) PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, (2) TEACHER AND…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Case Studies
BISHOP, LESLEE J. – 1967
CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION ARE INCREASINGLY VITAL ISSUES FOR COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN TEACHERS AND SUPERVISORS AND THEIR SCHOOL BOARDS. THIS DOCUMENT SUGGESTS GUIDELINES FOR EFFECTIVELY DEVELOPING A POSITIVE APPROACH TO THE RESOLUTION OF DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS IN THE DECISIONMAKING PROCESS SO THAT THE MOST EFFECTIVE LEARNING…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Boards of Education, Change Agents, Collective Bargaining
Chang, Paul Min Phang – 1980
The development of an off-campus program at the Science University in Penang, Malaysia, is described in this paper. The author sees this development as a case in which administrators mediated successfully in the development and implementation of an educational policy. The program was designed to provide off-campus study opportunities for employed…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Correspondence Study, Course Organization
ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, Eugene, OR. – 1980
Twelve essays and books reviewed in this annotated bibliography contribute information about how principals can identify the need for change and how they can implement successful change strategies. The literature contains several case studies as well as empirical research data. One study concludes that change is more likely to occur when…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role
Elmore, Richard F. – 1980
Addressed primarily to practitioners--legislators, administrators, and their staffs--this monograph is structured around a series of hypothetical exchanges between legislators and administrators concerning the implementation of a basic skills program. The author asserts that the hierarchical control that legislators traditionally rely on for…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Decision Making
Ghory, Ward J. – 1980
This paper concerns the process of developing model urban education programs and is based on the experiences of the state funded Urban Education Pilot Project (UEPP) being carried out in one Cincinnati, Ohio, inner city public high school attendance area. First, key premises used by the UEPP are outlined. These include: (1) principals are the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Role, Community Involvement, Educational Improvement
Valentine, Ivan E.; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to determine the tasks and responsibilities of a local vocational director at the secondary school district level in Colorado. Its objective was to determine the perceptions of local directors of secondary school districts in Colorado and their immediate supervisors' perceptions of the administrative tasks and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Hood, Paul D.; Blackwell, Laird R. – 1980
Three major studies of the role of teachers and other school district professionals in educational decision making and in initiating innovations, spanning the 1968-1973 time period, are reviewed and compared. A probable increase in the role of teachers as initiators of innovations is evident. Data on teachers and others as innovation initiators…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Educational Innovation
Harrison, Daphne D.; Murray, Saundra R. – 1976
The research described and evaluated in this report tests a model for intervention strategies to reduce the impact of racism on blacks in a university setting. The basic assumptions of the model discussed are that institutional racism is systematic and must be attacked through systems intervention by trained people, and that individual, group and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Affirmative Action, Behavior Change, Black Students
Glanz, Jeffrey – 1979
A persistent problem for supervisors and curriculum workers has been the unresolved tension between the demands of the organization and the drive for professionalism. Emerging in the late nineteenth century, the problem was greatly influenced by the transformation of the school system along bureaucratic lines. Supervisors and curriculum workers…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Problems, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
