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Kennedy, Robert L.; And Others – 1989
Rural schools have often lacked sufficient resources to acquire training, consultant, and evaluative services. The expertise of faculty in university teacher and administrator training programs has been largely untapped. This is primarily because of a lack of programs linking rural schools with the university faculties that might provide needed…
Descriptors: College Role, College School Cooperation, Consultation Programs, Curriculum Development
Little, Ann M.; And Others – 1986
With the objectives of assisting state educators in designing school leadership programs, school administrators in Tennessee were surveyed to determine levels of training and perceived training needs. Questionnaires were administered in 1986 to school board members, principals, and superintendents. Part 1 of the questionnaire dealt with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrators, Boards of Education
Lilly, Edward R. – 1986
In the past decade significant advances have taken place in the development of management information systems (MIS) to support managerial decision making. Recent literature has shown, however, that educators have yet to make full and efficient use of these computer-based systems. A number of authors have discussed factors that may affect…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Mosier, Nancy R. – 1986
Financial analysis techniques are tools that help managers make sound financial decisions that contribute to general corporate objectives. A literature review reveals that the most commonly used financial analysis techniques are payback time, average rate of return, present value or present worth, and internal rate of return. Despite the success…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Benefits
Pountney, Charmaine – 1986
Working toward the creation of a truly equitable human society demands that school administrators (1) become aware of ways in which educational systems currently collaborate in maintaining inequitable societies and (2) work to change the structures that serve the status quo into structures that support cooperative change. One major task is to…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Discrimination
Bates, Richard – 1986
Theoretical analysis of educational administration as presented by advocates of corporate culture is inappropriately applied to the analysis of schooling. The corporate culture model has diverged from the "New Sociology of Education" approach, which interprets administrative processes as cultural politics (Bates 1983). That "corporate culture" is…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Cultural Context, Educational Administration
Wimpelberg, Robert K. – 1984
Voluntary organizations providing inservice activities for principals are the newest in the administrative development field. This paper explores those organizations' prospects, particularly the voluntary, administrator-directed "principals' center," and borrows its analytical framework from theories of group formation. The Principals' Center in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Worthington, Robert M. – 1984
Entrepreneurship education has been of national concern for many years. In the early 1970s, the major thrust of Federal leadership was directed toward the expansion of minority businesses. Following a Presidential Executive Order, a cabinet-level Interagency Council for Minority Business Enterprise was established by the Secretary of Commerce in…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Careers, Economic Opportunities, Education Work Relationship
Brown, Peggy Ann, Ed. – Forum for Liberal Education, 1984
Liberal education offerings at 15 colleges directed to professionals, retired people, and other new audiences are described. An article by Peggy Ann Brown, "Recharging the Batteries on Totally New Fuel," describes four educational programs offered to professionals, including literature seminars at Brandeis University and the Dartmouth…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Students, College Programs, Continuing Education
Neubauer, Antonia – 1984
This study examines local, ongoing inservice practices and programs for school board members in Pennsylvania in order to devise a program that local districts can adapt or adopt in response to their own needs. Following a brief introduction, a summary describes how data for the study were gathered by means of a series of interviews and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education
West Virginia Roundtable Inc. – 1987
West Virginia's leaders--elected officials, business leaders, administrators of benevolence funding--attended the symposium held by the Education Task Force of West Virginia. Recommendations resulting from the symposium were: (1) to urge and support plans that focus on the individual student as the object of all reform efforts; (2) to support…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decentralization, Dropouts, Economic Development
Sackney, L. E.; Wilson, K. A. – 1987
Although effective schools research has indicated the need for an added emphasis on increasing student achievement within a satisfying learning climate, the issue of how best to implement this research has been perplexing for both researchers and practitioners. Different approaches are being tried in two rural Saskatchewan school divisions. In…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Murphy, Peter – 1981
New career programs being developed at the University of Victoria for postsecondary administrators are described, which are designed to improve the managerial capacity of community colleges and technical institutions in British Columbia. The graduate cooperative program consists of an academic session, an administrative internship, and a research…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, College Administration, Community Colleges, Extension Education
Moore, Colleen A. – 1981
The decline in the number and status of women in educational administration and the magnitude of their lack of representation in administrative positions is evidenced by numerous studies. To achieve the goal of identifying the components of the problem, solutions suggested by the research, and implications for women who aspire to administrative…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Career Choice, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Garman, Keats – 1982
The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members on managing conflict in the conduct of educational governance. The workshop helps board members develop and apply a framework for understanding conflict and introduces alternative approaches for managing it. The manual…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Community Relations