A recent study of the administrative characteristics, attitudes toward leadership and management, and personal and professional background of college presidents named by their peers as effective chief executives is reported. (MSE)

Adversarial relationships existing among medical students, nurses, and hospital staff members were recognized at Hermann Hospital, a private, nonprofit teaching hospital in Houston, Texas, to be potentially detrimental to patient care. A joint communications committee identified ways to improve relations between medical students and hospital…

An Arizona school board member offers 13 tips for avoiding excessive or divisive emotional involvement in school board issues. These tips generally emphasize the importance of civility, open-mindedness, factual support for arguments, tact, detachment, and humor. (TE)

Data from studies of physicians learning through interaction with colleagues are reviewed. Examines time physicians spend in collegial interaction, formal consultation, age and specialty differences in collegial interaction, practice-setting differences related to collegial interaction, and the educational-influential physician. (CT)

Student teachers' and student social workers' perceptions of primary teachers, secondary teachers, and social workers were studied. Results showed that entering students shared positive attitudes to social workers, shared more negative attitudes toward secondary teachers, and had widely differing, though not hostile, views on primary teachers.…

A critique of the presupposition, inherent in collective bargaining at the higher education level, of a community of interests among faculty members and an adversarial relationship between faculty and administrators. In general, faculty members have doubts about the wisdom or legitimacy of collective bargaining. (TE)

The teaching of national languages in Zaire is examined, underscoring the lack of an adequate infrastructure for defining a global policy. It is suggested that such policymaking must involve the collaboration of decision makers, scholars, teachers, scientific organizations, publishers, and translators and must consider economics and existing…

Every presidency is a unique situation depending on the characteristics of the person in office, the campus, past and present public expectations of a college president, and many other factors, and not on power and influence. (MSE)

The author discusses performance versus theory, athletics versus physical education, and several other dichotomies in order to examine how they produce tension in the field of physical education, to state what is positive and negative about the tension, and to decide whether the tension is constructive or destructive. (MT)

Discusses mentoring relationships for women in engineering. Advice and guideline include: (1) advantages (meeting new people, making career decisions, development as an employee); (2) disadvantages (overdependence, ethical disagreements, personal involvement); and (3) finding and using mentors. (DH)

Discussion of the instructional development process from the subject matter experts' perspective explains how this process can be threatening and demotivating for them and how instructional developers can use interpersonal skills to overcome these problems. Topics covered include use of contracts, building a supportive climate, and active…

Argues that geography should join in interdisciplinary programs to increase general social science understandings and to help provide an increased comprehension of the relationship of each discipline to the whole of knowledge. For journal availability, see SO 505 212. (Author/DB)

In this report, the Cross City Campaign continues to explore the district's role in instructional reform. In the fall of 2000, Cross City Campaign initiated a three-year qualitative study in three urban school districts that examined the role and importance of district/school interactions in the implementation of local instructional improvement.…

Given that the government is committed to recruiting 50,000 extra teaching and teaching assistants by 2006 (Smithers, Guardian 18 October 2002), arguably the best use of teaching assistants can be achieved when they are properly briefed about the learning outcomes, content and appropriate styles of presentation for the group of pupils with whom…

This practical guidebook is designed for managers and leaders who have responsibility for the creation and success of teams. First, a team is described as a workgroup whose members are dependent upon one another for the completion of a given task, and whose members possess different but complementary skill sets. A team manages its own work within…