Discusses the roles of English department chairpersons, with special attention to current questions regarding the teaching of composition and literature. (GT)

Michael Maccoby, in a study of 250 top management personnel, has identified four species of managers. Some educational leaders may be like the corporation executives Maccoby calls "gamesmen." They are team players, love to win--and lack compassion. (Author/MLF)

Critically examines the concept of leadership and the viability of leadership training. (Author/MLF)

An instrument is presented for self-assessment by secondary school principals to identify both their willingness to intervene and their style of intervention in conflict situations with students and colleagues. (Author/MLF)

The author suggests that parents are alienated from the educational domain, and discusses how this might be alleviated. He encourages them to take an active role in the educational community, and not delegate to "experts" their educational decision-making authority as parents. (Author/KC)

Not only is the Black administrator usually hired for the wrong reasons, but he is also given powerless positions in the institution, making it difficult for him to influence decision-making activities. (Author/EB)

A parent recognizes principals as the educational leaders in their communities and urges them to be aware of the importance of parents in making schools effective learning places. (Author/MLF)

A new partnership in independent education is developing, i.e., shared participation in shaping and making substantive decisions. Describes this trend in detail along with a definition of leadership, centralized and decentralized approaches to leadership, and four styles of governance basic to independent school leadership. (Author/RK)

This article summarizes the current status of collective bargaining, analyzes the dynamics of the bargaining process, reviews student participation in negotiations, and suggests a role for student personnel administrators on a unionized campus. (Author)

Discusses the role of the community college president in creating an environment on campus which will cultivate and stimulate the talents of students, faculty, and administrators. Suggests that the president demonstrate through professional activities that he has the knowledge, desire, and drive to serve as an educational leader. (TP)

Advocates a marketing orientation to community college management as demonstrated by the successful implementation of four-state (service, promotion, delivery, and evaluation) marketing plan at Prince George's Community College in Washington D.C. (TP)

Sees the community college president as the manager of a complex corporate entity who plans, organizes, directs, coordinates, and controls in order to insure qualitative growth and development of the institution. (TP)

School administrators should develop a set of written policies and procedures to handle in-school medical emergencies until such time as a nurse or physician can be contacted or physically present. If medications are to be given during school hours, the school board should provide a clearly defined policy in this area. (MM)

Media professionals will have an effective impact upon education if they extend their administrative functions of organizing and controlling to include the managerial functions of planning and motivating. The successful media manager needs knowledge and skills in three areas--technical, human, and conceptual. (CMV)

Reveals that management prerogatives of college administrators are being undermined for two reasons: common law rights to manage are no longer exempt from the list of issues subject to collective bargaining and administrators fail to realize that management rights clauses constitute their major protection in negotiated agreements. (TP)