Throughout the past decade, there have been increasing demands by American academic librarians for full faculty status, participation in management, and unionization. To determine if these demands have caused changes, a survey was made of the personnel organization schemes at the libraries of five major universities--Texas A&M, Harvard,…

This book includes 37 selected articles and extensive editorial comments on the laboratory approach to sensitivity training. The book focuses on the following aspects of T-Groups: descriptions of and reactions to T-Groups; the processes and outcomes of T-Groups; leadership and member roles; goals, methods, and results; applications in the home,…

The basis for developing vital, team-like characteristics in contemporary pluralistic America lies in the understanding and building of new interpersonal norms and skills. The new norms accept human collaboration and human diversity as basic facts for problemsolving, survival, and growth. These norms support the intent that interpersonal and…

Four styles of professional-organizational functioning were identified through a factor analysis of questionnaire data. The questionnaire was based on a conceptual framework derived from the literature administered to a cross section of educational practitioners. The four styles were found to be differently related to four constructs and several…

As Latin American nations marshall their rapidly growing human and material resources, they frequently encounter organizational infrastructures which are incapable of supporting the rapid process of modernization. Yet, these inadequate infrastructures persist over time, leaving behind unrecoverable losses. Attempts to understand the problems of…

The preface states that this report was developed from interviews of college administrators, staff, and students; from department self-studies; and from open hearings. The intent of the report is to present the framework for a changed administrative structure, a new academic design, and a system for policy determination. The document is divided…

The papers in this document, written by persons from a variety of disciplines, are addressed to issues which have confronted vocational educators for many years and which remain unsolved as the decade of the 70's begins. Specific topics include: (1) "Curriculum Response to Occupational Trends" by Garth Mangum, (2) "Changing Relationships Between…

This book presents a system by which feedback might be generated and used as a basis for organizational change. The major areas covered consist of the development of a rationale for the use of simulation in the selection of supervisors, a description of actual techniques, and a method for training individuals in the use of the material. The…

A picture of the American prison situation in the past and in its present changing form is presented. The object of the correctional community is becoming more and more that of successfully reintegrating the ex-offender into the social community from which he has been separated. It is predicted that within the next five years: (1) Every state will…

This paper discusses the characteristics and operation of an evaluation process -- transactional evaluation. Concentrating on the effects change has on those effecting the change, transactional evaluation stresses incorporation of both protagonists and antagonists into a change-oriented team. A copy of an evaluation questionnaire is included. (DLG)

This speech gives a brief picture of the characteristics and components of a program to change and improve administration in educational organizations. This program affects adinistrative change by providing participants with specific training for their change agent roles and by concentrating on the school system from which the participants come --…

Written as a synthesis of strategies for effecting change, this document is directed toward state and local educational administrators, supervisory personnel, researchers, development personnel, teachers, and teacher educators. In reviewing the literature it was evident that during the past few years there has been a growing emphasis on local…

This study was undertaken to compare the variables related to the successful institutionalization of changes across divergent organizations, and to design, through cross-validation, an interorganization model of change. Descriptive survey questionnaires and structured interviews were the instruments used. The respondent sample consisted of 1,500…

Recently many religious colleges have become more secular and single-sex colleges have become coeducational. By contrasting environmental and financial data of a matched sample of colleges that made these changes with a sample of colleges that have not, it was possible to assess the impact of those policy decisions. (Author/LBH)

Presents personal views, remarks about the European Society of Engineering Education and trends in engineering education. Lists organizational and educational objectives and measures to be considered. (CW)