Effectiveness in collective negotiations depends significantly on how well administrators can communicate the issues under discussion to their management team. SB 160, a newly-defined negotiations process is forcing administrators to focus more sharply on middle management. A new component in management, the Management Alternates Team, was…

This article presents evaluative criteria guidelines for the process of human resource development. These guidelines discuss the importance of considering the following aspects: Relevant needs, clear objectives, accomplishment, uniqueness, flexibility, skill orientation, professional leadership, future perspective, a value system, evaluation of an…

Reviews the evolution of the term entropy from the mathematical and mechanical perspective and discusses implications for its use in the communication field. (MH)

This article discusses various definitions and uses of the Spanish verb "to contemplate." (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

The excellence goal of the Closing the Gaps by 2015 plan developed for higher education in Texas is hard to define and quantify clearly. However, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and institutional representatives have developed a starting point to reassess areas of national recognition required to meet the goal. The excellence goal…

This paper is based on the preparatory study of a doctoral study in which we learned to consider defining in the realm of organizing. In particular, having engaged students in a situation based on "equivalence relations" (from an expert point of view), we report two different ways of organizing the given situation. One of them results in a "new"…

Analyses of data from operational course placement systems are subject to the effects of truncation; students with low placement test scores may enroll in a remedial course, rather than a standard-level course, and therefore will not have outcome data from the standard course. In "soft" truncation, some (but not all) students who score…

This paper attempted to learn what it is that one appreciates in the process of learning about art. (RK)

Discussed the role and accomplishments of the advisory council. (RK)

Article stipulated basic distinctions and definitions that provided a necessary and sufficient background for an overall understanding of the structure of MISOE information systems. (Author/RK)

Defined the collegial team and how it helped administrators to improve the school climate. (RK)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. Comments are based on the compiling of A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue''. Paper presented at the Table Ronde de Lexicographie Historique, Florence, Italy, May 4, 1971. (DD)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)

Discusses the assignment of status lables (colloquial, illiterate, popular, slang) to indicate the degree of acceptability of a particular word. Article is part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)