Describes how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, traditionally conservative in its investments, is taking a riskier approach in the hope of increasing returns; moves include consideration of a private financial services spinoff. (EV)

Through comparison of higher education transformation in South Africa and the United States, highlights issues confronting leaders and policymakers, including the structure of national mandates, challenges of urgency and abundance, importance of a language of transformation, and issues of legitimate and tested decision-making processes. Offers…

Discusses how college presidents who were asked by the Knight commission to suggest changes in athletics programs founds themselves caught between forces focused on winning and on academics. (EV)

Considers issues involved in the change process within organizational culture. Highlights include adopting an appropriate management style; evaluation of performance; aspects of change; implications of change for people management; degrees of change; resistance to change; and an example of planning and implementing a new information technology…

The Delta Emerging Leaders Program prepares effective leaders for the Mississippi Delta region using the underlying principles of interracial contact, common goals, interpersonal association, and learner responsibility. Strategies for creating change include leadership characteristics and commitment, understanding of tradition, action orientation,…

According to distinguished pollster Daniel Yankelovich, educators are one of the nation's most isolated subcultures, which is an obstacle to K-12 education improvement. He warns that if educators are to keep others from imposing their solutions, they must engage them in dialogue instead of ignoring them. (EV)

Explains two methods for planning and implementing change that are being used by business and public institutions: re-engineering, and process improvement. Both are customer oriented and can be utilized by academic libraries as is shown in a case study of the library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (LRW)

Case studies explored issues between medical schools and parent universities and strategies used to resolve them, including changes in governance, organization, and management of medical schools (such as unified authority for health affairs, reengineered administrative systems, and increased autonomy in decision making). Concluded these strategies…

If technology is to be integrated into the school curriculum, the meaning of educational leadership and the role of principals within a technical paradigm must be redefined. Principals are responsible for defining and communicating a mission, managing curriculum and instruction, training and evaluating teachers, monitoring student progress,…

Site-management designs generally fail to establish structures and processes that help school communities work through cultural change. The Comer School Development Program succeeds because it supports a change in school culture and focuses on children's development, not just their speech, language, and intellectual capabilities. Lessons from…

Focuses on three areas that can affect how well a consultant serves the client: (1) decisions, including decision making, decision makers, and lines of communication; (2) illusions, including the need to address performance improvement; and (3) models, including defining, validating, and possibly changing the model. (LRW)

Teacher development should focus on student learning, recognize that change affects teachers personally, change the organizational culture, use a systems approach, make learning processes for teachers model the type of instruction desired, and provide time for collaboration. (SK)

A parody addresses the common situation where a learning organization places unreasonable hope and faith in the services of an external consultant to reform general and special education. Educators are urged to use such consultants intelligently but to rely primarily on their own professional experience, professional confidence, and motivated…

Discusses reasons for and methods to defuse classroom teachers' resistance to change in the workplace. Suggestions include planning for resistance, acknowledging peoples' concerns and addressing them specifically, avoiding criticism of current methods, individualizing resistance reduction, and providing ongoing support. (JKP)

Discusses two parallel processes at work that are upgrading the role of the learner and downgrading that of the teacher. The article examines the reactions of teachers to this situation. The article concludes that improved training for second-language teachers is required to address the problems arising from this situation. (CK)