This magazine feature presents seven articles whose authors reflect on the legacy of past female leaders in sport, define current challenges, and envision how women are changing sport for tomorrow. (GLR)

Review of American Association of University Professors cases (n=17) concerning college employment practices and policies during retrenchment draws a parallel between patterns of resource reallocation in higher education and redistribution of wealth and power in the larger society. Retrenchment is seen as a socially constructed not a…

The Clinton Administration's national service proposal, and its ramifications for federal student loan programs, are outlined. It is proposed that college officials can be most constructive by helping to design the program's in-college component, where their expertise and attention are most needed. (MSE)

Examines how Connecticut's alternative teacher certification policy objectives have been met during the Alternative Route program's first three years. The program has successfully brought qualified individuals into teaching who contribute excellent subject matter knowledge and professionalism. It has been an external catalyst for change in…

A school district planned and implemented site-based management. Schools developed ad hoc committees (AHCs) and created school management teams and plans. The AHCs effectively allowed school faculties to have input and involvement in developing management plans. The more they employed team building, the greater the impact on intended outcomes. (SM)

Issues in the debate over expansion of British mass higher education are examined, including the need to encourage institutional diversity, expand part-time study, integrate part- and full-time programs, provide funding based on student credit points and integrated financial aid, and raise awareness of these issues in the academic community. (MSE)

Since the U.S. has no strong centralized educational program, the drive for systemic change is proceeding more slowly and unsystematically than in Japan or France. Systemic reform strategies must emphasize building schools' capacity for self-renewal. Getting from uniformly high standards to diverse delivery systems is the challenge. Marshall…

Application of the Total Quality Management approach to one aspect of the administration of South Bank University (England), the relationship between student as customer and university as supplier, is described. The technique includes development of service quality standards and agreements for each service, support, and academic department. (MSE)

The University of Miami (Florida) has both institutional and department-specific task forces studying seven planning issues from different perspectives, to be coordinated with the central strategic planning process at the appropriate time. Issues include curriculum, interdisciplinary program development, administrative productivity, faculty…

Presents a progress report of Illinois Township High School District 214's effort to advance the restructuring agenda of its schools' outcome-based education. Steps involved in planning and developing the outcome-based education program are provided along with an overview of implications of restructuring to achieve outcomes of significance for all…

Community-based medical education is key to training physicians to work in needy fields such as outpatient care and health care for the medically underserved. Describes the disadvantages of traditional medical school curricula and presents sample community health curricula now being used. Suggests ways to increase medical students' awareness of…

Eliminating mandatory retirement for tenured professors will force institutions to reassess their relationships with older faculty. Institutions should not abolish or modify existing tenure policies, which might erode academic freedom, but should instead adopt and consistently apply performance review procedures. (Author/MSE)

Worldwide, school is a pufferbelly locomotive chugging incongruously through a high-tech landscape. Changing schools significantly means smothering them with a critical mass of changes in rapid succession. Meanwhile, the education industry offers the public Band-Aids for whatever school wound is currently suppurating. In Future Schools, students…

Data obtained from the Change Facilitators Stages of Concern Questionnaire were used in the Philippines to select content in a one-month staff development program for department heads. The training program was strongly influenced by participants' concerns. The article describes the change facilitator stages of concern. (SM)

Describes how staff at an outdoor education center responded to budget cuts and the threat of program cancellation by encouraging outside use of the center for a fee, and by developing a partnership with the Demonstration Forest Program, resulting in improvement to nature trails and the reinstatement of day-trip programs. (LP)