Discusses nine major forces buffeting the California Public School System in the years 1970 through 1980: educational reform movements, declining enrollment, public dissatisfaction with education, the Serrano Decision, collective bargaining, Proposition 13, court-ordered integration, the voucher movement, and the proposed 1980 statewide spending…

Describes the remedial approach of Middle College's five-year--grades 10 - 14--program in terms of three aspects (size and setting, counseling, and basic skills instruction) and four factors influencing institutional development (variance in educational values, line of authority, planning continuity, and attitudes toward change). (AYC)

Recent technological displacement in AT&T affected workers differentially by sex. This longitudinal analysis of changes in AT&T's organizational structure addresses the tendency of organizational research to ignore the variable of sex in the study of change. (Author/RLV)

The author finds two major threats to school decision-making structures in the current trend toward unionization among school principals. First, it separates middle managers from top management, disrupting the traditional team approach to policymaking. Second, it requires greater specification and therefore restriction and formalization of roles.…

Making successful changes in college curriculum requires (1) a climate favorable to change with overt support from administrators; (2) a period of planning, study, fact finding, and reinforcement; and (3) implementation of the new curriculum with security, adequate resources, and the development of new skills. (MB)

Nine crucial issues in secondary education are identified: (1) self-actualization skills, (2) humane values, (3) social survival skills, (4) transfer of social heritage, (5) utilization of total environment, (6) program content, (7) organizational renewal, (8) optimum resource usage, (9) societal participation in educational improvement. (MB)

Discusses some elements which contribute to the rising concern for occupational mental health and directions that can be taken by firms, companies, etc., to provide health-promoting work environments for their employees. (TA)

Describes the Kansas Community Colleges which have never been unified under a statewide system. Also notes that Kansas colleges receive only 28% of their funding from the state, the lowest in the country, and that the colleges are currently confronted with a funding crisis. Suggests that Kansas colleges develop a statewide system. (JDI)

Notes that effective staff development and positive youth development practice share many philosophical and structural similarities. Examines the relationship between youth and staff development and the long-term implications of organizational commitment to the youth-serving movement's newest paradigm-positive youth development. (EV)

Organizational changes in academic libraries are affecting the responsibilities of the library department head. This article examines the roles of traditional and reengineered department heads and describes the experience of the University of Illinois at Chicago in reengineering its library technical services operations. Includes a chart comparing…

Brings the perspectives of five individuals (Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Johann von Herder, James Madison) to the question of why humans behave as they do when faced with the need for decision making and change in higher education. Argues that effecting change is easier if leaders attend to the concerns and fears of those affected by…

Surveyed leaders, staff and parents over a three-year period to determine effect of organizational changes on pedagogical content in Swedish preschools. Found that changes in organizational frame and available resources raised the importance of official goals and caused the school's main function to be seen as providing service, elaborating…

Examines the emergence of the concept of university leadership, common in the United States but relatively new in many other countries. Describes three models of institutional leadership (academic chief executive officer, elected rector, and minister) and analyzes the potential of each. Discusses both national and institutional culture as powerful…

New methods of structuring college faculty compensation systems are needed to involve, motivate, reward, and recognize individual and group behaviors. Compensation systems of the future should support the institution's core values, recognize that success results from interdependent relationships and not only individual accomplishments, and include…

The process by which the University of Southern Queensland (Australia) selected an organizational structure for continuing education is described. A survey of stakeholders revealed 15 major issues related to administrative organization decisions, upon which six deans based their judgments about first, the issues' relative weight and, second, the…