The capital campaign is seen as one of the most critical activities of a college president. Planning the campaign, determining feasibility, formulating the case, validating critical projects, evaluating major prospects, giving and asking, and achieving public credibility are discussed. (MLW)

The key to the successful college level music administrator is the ability to deal with people. S/he listens, is accessible, and can make decisions. Both autocratic and democratic personality types can succeed, and their levels of experience may vary, but good administrators must have vision. (CS)

Athletics can be a meaningful part of a liberal education when games are played for their own sake and not for conquest or money. Presidential leadership in the reform of collegiate athletics is discussed. (MLW)

Efficient supervisors have three kinds of skills: human, managerial, and technical. Each is defined and examples are provided. While human relations and management are important, technical skills, more than any other, make the role of the instructional supervisor unique. (TE)

Addresses numerous problem areas in today's schools, including student absenteeism, teacher attendance, the lack of administrative time devoted to instructional supervision, the infrequency of student assemblies and faculty meetings, inadequate faculty development, low scholastic requirements, the need for a tenured teacher policy, administrative…

Describes methodology and results of a study which elicited local news directors' comments to determine whether respondents thought technology has helped or hurt local news. Results indicate news gathering technology may have a negative effect on local television news content and on the autonomy of news directors. (Author/MBR)

Relates some of the good and bad of chairing an English department. (HOD)

Offers tips for supervising teachers and teaching based on the assumption that good teaching is an art rather than a science.

Offers guidelines for appropriate male administrator dress and reports findings of a survey of teacher perceptions of male secondary school administrators' dress. (FL)

Principals in urban high schools can play an important role in improving school effectiveness by adopting an educational philosophy that focuses on development of the students' sense of self-worth. (PGD)

Discusses the results and the implications for accounting education of a questionnaire sent to members of the National Association of Accountants. The study was made to determine management accountants' perception of their role(s) in the organization. The author also comments on accounting curriculum and the role of the accounting educator. (CT)

Describes the components of a discipline record system that can improve understanding of where, when, and why problems occur and what methods prove successful for handling them. Also identifies a number of factors that affect the success of discipline conferences between administrators and the parents of misbehaving students. (PGD)

John Goodlad suggests that individual schools should be encouraged to establish their own priorities for improvement and should be supported by their districts and by networks of schools with similar concerns. He further suggests that subject area teaching should concentrate on broad concepts rather than on unlimited, discrete topics. (PGD)

Focuses on the role of the department chairperson in helping achieve curriculum and instructional improvement. Provides a general profile of the chairperson; examines roles and responsibilities, job frustrations, faculty expectations, and lack of performance data; offers recommendations for improving performance. (DMM)

This article sketches the background of current problems facing urban secondary school principals and cites a profile of the effective urban principal derived from recent research. Outstanding problems concerning the conditions and role of the urban principalship are discussed. (MJL)