Adult education administrators should constantly work toward effective utilization of time. Administrative effectiveness is a function of the relationship between goals and outcomes, both of which are conditioned by time. Suggests ways that administrators could make more effective use of their time. (EM)

Examines the potential impact of the advent of collective bargaining for building-level school administrators on the organizational structure of schools, school district decision-making patterns, and relationships among building-level administrators, teachers, and district-level administrators. (JG)

Argues that instructional supervisors must take an active role in instructional improvement and that supervisors should become directly involved in the development of a teacher evaluation system that is objective, systematic, and collaborative, with emphasis on the improvement process. (JG)

There is a positive relationship between teaching effectiveness and the teacher's perceptions of himself and his abilities. The educational leader should try to enhance the teacher's self-image in order to improve instructional quality. (Author)

An administrator with a hybrid disposition, part scholar and part riverboat gambler, may serve more effectively than either model alone, suggests this executive of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. Many academic administrators try to live by common sense, which is often yesterday's heresy. (Author/LBH)

Not only are both administrative leadership and teacher autonomy possible in the organizational structure of a school, they are requisite for a healthy and dynamic school climate. (MJB)

Proposes new economic and political philosophies to turn the college-graduate surplus into a trained manpower shortage and calls for a new partnership in policy making between educators, employers, and the community at large for interrelating education and work. (JT)

Collaboration in behavior modification among consultants, administrators and teaching staff was found effective in solving child management problems in a day care center. (GO)

Suggestions for ways that middle managers can help themselves are offered in this discussion of administrative and staffing issues affecting the deans, directors, and assistants of support services. (LBH)

The National Collegiate Athletic Association's new executive director responds to questions about leadership style, the tightening academic standards, effects of cost containment, women's athletics, blacks in coaching and sports administration, institutional autonomy, and competition with the College Football Association. (MSE)

Reviews the American college and university president's role as it developed in Colonial times through the era of the academy (1819-1862), the emerging university (1862-1915), the golden age (1915-1975), and the age of uncertainty (1975 to the present). The college president's role as educational leader depends on institutional mission and goals.…

Considers change processes at the school-building level in order to formulate a number of locally based strategies (at the school and district levels) to improve schools and classrooms. Suggests change strategy implications arising from the effective schools research. (RH)

Reports the results of developing and pilot testing assessment procedures for evaluating the level of program implementation of administrative and leadership roles in an innovative early childhood education program. Subjects were school principals, educational program specialists, and classroom teachers in five urban schools. (Author/BB)