Describes the development of a communication-based research project and plan to foster and maintain diversity within a large statewide public transportation agency and among its external constituents. Describes the organization structurally and historically, presents research methods and findings of a one-year organizational assessment, and…

Proposes a model for communicating change about diversity using a workplace-readiness approach. Discusses ways organizational change agents can assess the company's current interpersonal and social dynamics, use appropriate influence strategies, and create effective messages that will appeal to employees and help to achieve the desired acceptance…

Describes a series of 1991-94 events observed in an English primary school that are typical examples of school response to an externally imposed innovation--assessment of pupils against the progressive learning scale in the national curriculum. Focused reflective practice, through reference to change events and types of teacher response, enhances…

Offers planning advice to colleges and universities considering restructuring their operations to contain costs and/or improve faculty and student services, based on the experience of Bowdoin College (Maine) and a survey of other institutions undergoing similar change. Outlines eleven basic principles for creating both a supportive context and a…

Describes a counseling process that assists people who are caught in career changes and acknowledges the effect of changing labor market opportunities on career decisions. Focuses on career development and the process of change, as well as making sense of transitions, normalizing clients' reactions, and planning the next steps. (RJM)

Argues that the reputation of education research is simultaneously worse--and better--than most have assumed and that some efforts recently initiated suggest a strategy for improving the situation. Efforts to stimulate research syntheses on significant education problems are highlighted. (GR)

Encourages the library manager to develop a facility for "reframing," or seeing a situation from several viewpoints in succession. This technique can aid in problem solving and in effecting change in organizational culture. Frames listed include structural, human-resource related, political, or symbolic, and practical considerations…

Provides three responses regarding an article, "Choosing Our Futures": (1) disagrees with how much and how fast change in academic libraries should be made, arguing that reorientation not revolution is needed; (2) sees it as a foundation for dialog and action; and (3) notes the article's lack of supporting research, questions its vague…

Describes three trends--downsizing, reduction of government funding, and shift of decision making from federal to state and state to local agencies. Suggests that community response to these trends requires leadership, a role for adult educators. (SK)

Presents reflections of six primary school teachers and their principal on the growth of their literacy program based on whole language principles; and their professional development as teachers of young children. Discusses a nurturing environment, changes in their literacy program, strategies for success, and future goals. (SR)

Examines contexts out of which federal youth arts funding emerged, and discusses federal youth arts programs during the Nixon and Carter presidential administrations when youth arts were formalized through the Department of Education arts-in-education programs, and subsequently through programs with other federal agencies. Discusses contemporary…

Presents thinking from the Project on the Future of Higher Education on the economic climate for higher education and the possibilities of a transformative, rather than "muddling through," approach to offering a hopeful future for the quality of faculty work life and for meaningful student learning. (EV)

Discusses several ingredients which represent a reasonable sense of direction for promoting effective inclusionary practices in schools: staffing, teacher-led staff development, effective classroom practices, the importance of higher-order literacy, and other considerations. (SR)

Discusses the need for organizational change in academic research libraries, based on a study of a small group of libraries that had experienced varying degrees of restructuring and had analyzed factors that energized change. Highlights include organizational flexibility, external or client-centered orientation, staff empowerment, and improving…

Identifies five strategies for reestablishing meaning and control and proposes that the use of these strategies requires cognitive work, the ability to change views, and flexibility in goal identification. Explores some of the blockades to finding meaning and control, such as situational factors and rigidity in world views and beliefs. (RJM)