The high rate of turnover of college presidents, the scarcity of willing replacements and haphazard recruitment methods are symptoms of a lack of clearly defined administrative needs--one of the most serious management problems in colleges and universities. Directionless institutions in this revolutionary era are likely to surrender to factional pressures and to misplace priorities. Perhaps the position of the president should be modified since neither academic nor managerial skills are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Board Candidates, Educational Objectives, Higher Education,...
During the 1980s educational administration preparation programs were criticized as being irrelevant to professional administrative life. In response to this criticism, the University Council for Educational Administration reviewed preparation programs in a report entitled "Leader's for America's Schools." The review found that there was a need to define educational leadership, recruit promising candidates for educational leadership, develop collaborative relationships with school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role,...
SEVERAL CRITICAL COMPONENTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL ORGANIZATION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO STAFF CONFLICT WERE STUDIED. A SAMPLE OF 1,976 FACULTY MEMBERS IN 28 PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS WAS SELECTED FOR QUESTIONING AND INTERVIEWING. THE FINDINGS DISCUSSED WERE (1) TYPICAL PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATION, (2) ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL VARIABLES AND CONFLICT, (3) DEPARTMENTAL ANALYSES, (4) CONTENT ANALYSES, AND (5) ANALYSES OF INDIVIDUALS. STAFF CONFLICT APPEARED TO BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE PROFESSIONAL...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Problems, Administrator Role, Evaluation Methods, School Organization,...
Colleges and universities have a unique organizational culture that influences the decision-making processes used by leaders of higher education. This paper presents findings of a study that attempted to identify the theoretical frameworks that administrators of higher education use to guide their decision-making processes. The following theoretical frameworks were used to analyze leadership processes: (1) power and influence theory; (2) behavioral theory; (3) trait theory; (4) contingency...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Administration, Higher Education,...
Nearly 80,000 scholars currently serve as department chairs, and almost one-quarter will need to be replaced each year. Such a high turnover rate is partly due to surprises and unexpected sacrifices embedded in the department chair position. In an effort to help professors prepare for and overcome unforseen tradeoffs, the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) conducted a survey in the spring 1990. This comprehensive survey included 808 department chairs in 101 research and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, College Faculty, Department Heads, Higher Education, Leadership,...
Using ethnographic research tools, this study explored the role that the symbolic action of administrators played in the the social construction of reality. Case study data were provided to illustrate meaning management at the school district level. Framing this analysis is the application of the categories of critical theory to the study of educational organizations. Critical theory of organizations involves the three tasks of understanding, critique, and praxis. For the purpose of discussing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Organizational...
This article spins a yarn about the appointment of António Coimbra, the first vice-chancellor of an Australian university, who came from Portugal, well-equipped for the job. Described is his approach to this new role and his unusual way of handling the unexpected task of a vice-chancellor.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, College Presidents, Administrator Role, Leadership Styles,...
Teacher morale is based on the teacher's self-esteem. Teachers who feel appreciated, important to the realization of organizational goals, professionally and intellectually capable of contributing to organizational outcomes, and accepted as competent by their supervisors have the high self- esteem needed for good morale. To develop confidence in teachers and enhance morale, administrators can (1) stand up for those in subordinate positions and recognize their efforts; (2) hire strong people who...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Esteem, Teacher...
This short speech examines the principal in his various roles as an educational leader, personnel manager, and business manager. It reports evidence indicating that the principal's primary role, that of educational leadership, is being eroded as a consequence of the expansion of his other roles. The author suggests a readjustment of priorities to set the role of the principal in the proper direction. To this end, the author says, some duties traditionally held by the principal must be...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Responsibility,...
Several models for improving school effectiveness are now available, and most of them highlight the principal's leadership role. Unfortunately, administrators do not regularly reflect on the important aspects of their professional roles or analyze the factors that may make it difficult for them to implement given models of effectiveness in their particular settings. This paper proposes a model for self-appraisal by principals. Principals should first review the research literature on competing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Leadership, Models, Principals, Questionnaires, School...
Educational research typically overlooks the significance of the superintendent in improvement efforts. The superintendent must not only be a good manager, but must also provide leadership, direction, vision, and purpose, and must establish an atmosphere conducive to learning. Because effective communication is vital, and in order to avoid confusion, the superintendent must also form an administrative team to maximize interaction and create commitment. One of the key elements of superintendent...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary...
In this paper, the author traces the phases in the historical development of the functions of the principalship in Canada -- from administration by imitation and innovation to the administrator as planner. The author emphasizes the planning function of the principalship and suggests that by delegating more responsibility to staffs and teachers, principals will provide themselves with more time to devote to goal setting and the evaluation of alternatives. (JF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role,...
Many college and university administrators have responded to the recent increase in hateful incidents on campus by putting hate speech codes into place. The establishment of speech codes has sparked a heated debate over the impact that such codes have upon free speech and First Amendment values. Some commentators have suggested that viewing hate speech as a special category of expression, unworthy of traditional protection, will result in unpredictable consequences. Many administrators,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, College Environment, College Students, Freedom of Speech, Higher...
Certain basic principles must be accepted if colleges and universities are to function in an orderly, purposeful way and to lay down those conditions necessary to insure the presence of effective leadership on the campus. Some basic principles are: (1) a college or university exists to serve the general society that created it and that supports it; (2) its constituencies should be provided with an opportunity to be informed and heard; (3) in the eyes of the law a college or university is its...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Principles, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Board...
ERIC abstracts on the school principalship, announced in RIE through August 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "administrator role,""principals,""school administration," and "teacher administrator relationship." The following information is presented for each document: author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date, number of pages, ERIC document (ED) number, price and availability, and abstract. A...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Abstracts, Administrator Role, Bibliographies, Clearinghouses, Educational...
The bibliography contains 37 references selected from Exceptional Child Education Abstracts relating to administrative concerns of special education. One in a series of over 50 similar selected listings concerning the education of gifted or handicapped children, the bibliography cites research reports, conference papers, journal articles, texts, and program guides on such administrative topics as professional standards, evaluation methodology, program supervision, laws and regulations, program...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Annotated...
This paper describes some of the substantive areas of role conflict between administrative and teaching personnel and suggests some strategies designed to resolve these conflicts that are viewed as a necessary and ongoing part of change. The areas of role conflict are identified as: a) the degree of expertise in educating students shown by administrators and teachers, b) the collision between the authority structure of the school and the professional role of the teaching staff, and c) the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Role Conflict, Teacher...
Pennsylvania's school districts and area vocational-technical schools are required to submit long range plans to the Pennsylvania Department of Education every 5 years. Part of the planning process involves the development of strategies, or action plans, for achieving the long term objectives identified in the long range plans. This planning guide discusses the steps to take in developing these strategies, the purposes for the action plans, and the elements of the plans that must be documented...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Long Range...
The role of the school principal appears to have changed as the result of Public Law 94-142 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act) and now includes increased community involvement, paperwork, time related to non-instructional tasks for children, and greater involvement of teachers in the organization and structure of the school. In response to these perceived changes, a series of in-service seminars was held for Omaha-area administrators. Highlights of the seminars are reported in this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Disabilities, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education,...
This report includes selected papers given at the twelfth national junior college conference, which was sponsored by the UCLA Junior College Leadership Program, the American Association of Junior Colleges, California Junior College Association, ERIC Clearinghouse for Junior Colleges, and the University of California Office of Relations with Schools. It was held July 1968 at Los Angeles. The titles of these majors papers were: "The Junior College President: Who and Where From";...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Conferences, Presidents, Two Year...
This paper was part of a symposium focusing on the role of educational administrators in school-based research. The author states that the role of research for the school administrator should be to support decision-making, both in providing a rational basis on which decisions can be made and in helping administrators feel confident their decisions are good because they are based on true conditions. (Author/MLF)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Research,...
Three purposes are listed for this paper: (1) to share the results of a national survey of vocational education exemplary projects; (2) to emphasize the importance of a project director's communication with five clientele audiences; and (3) to suggest specific actions likely to result in institutionalization of a demonstration project. A brief procedural overview is presented of the national survey which investigated the activities of demonstration project directors through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Administrators, Audiences, Demonstration Programs, Guidelines,...
A strategy to reform the educational system based upon collaboration and inclusion, vision building among all participants, the establishment of a new infrastructure, and the replacement of linear, top-down planning is explained. Each of these four goals is examined with suggestions for implementation given. After this strategy is outlined, three types of activities are given to implement the system within an educational setting. These activities are first to establish "moderating and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Role, Cooperation, Educational Change,...
The purpose of this paper was to define the role of the administrator of vocational education in the single-college junior college district. Comparisons were made among the definitions provided in the pertinent literature, the job descriptions given by several colleges, and the interpretation of their role as seen by a sample of vocational administrators. While agreement was found between the literature and the job descriptions (probably as a result of the latter evolving from the former),...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Two Year Colleges,...
This study examined the status of the interim presidency at public research/doctorate-granting universities. A questionnaire soliciting demographic data on interim presidential utilization was sent to the institutional research offices at 134 universities, and the returned questionnaires, 20 interim presidents were selected to participate in phenomenological interviews. Data from the questionnaires revealed that interim presidencies are prevalent among public research/doctorate-granting...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Presidents,...
This article on what principals should know about reading addresses the issue of how to prepare students to become competent lifelong readers. It lays the foundation for bringing about high gains in reading motivation and achievement, and presents five basic premises and sets of recommendations for each premise. The premises are: (1) children learn from modeling; (2) it is natural for children to enjoy reading and to be motivated to read; (3) learning to read should be easy and fun; (4) good...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading...
Ninety-five elementary principals from 14 northern Illinois school districts participated in a study of the role of school principals in bringing about educational change. The study indicated that elementary school principals recognized needs for establishing effective communication and good working relationships with their constituents. Principals utilized a variety of methods for actively promoting change. Central office personnel rated experienced principals and those employing paid teacher...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Educational Change,...
After a brief review of the position of women in educational administration, the Commissioner examines the role of leadership in encouraging change and improvement. Administrators have a particularly sensitive and demanding role as working partners with teachers and the community. The Office of Education is moving to give school districts a major role in staff development and the preparation of teaching personnel. The teacher can no longer be required to conform to a preconceived pattern, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Career Education, Educational Improvement, Leadership...
Since education has become big business, the reactions of the academic community to social change are of immense political and social effect. Therefore, before higher education can deal with the question of accountability, it has to define the role of the college or university in relation to society. One alternative is that the campus operate as an absolutely insulated entity, the other is for the institution of higher education to be completely responsive to the state. The proper answer to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Administration, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational...
This study described the initial development of a Committee Role Rating Scale (CRRS) and a Conference Role Semantic Differential (CRSD) as measures of these specific roles common to administrators at all educational levels. Although the CRRS showed general construct validity, the small amount of common variance accounted for by the factors and the low internal consistency reliability of the initial form of CRRS indicate a need for further development before nonresearch use. Because it is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role, Behavior Rating Scales, Committees,...
This guide is the seventh in a series of eleven generated in 1978 as the result of workshops that focused on peer training, a different approach to teaching. The workshops provided the opportunity for members of eleven identified role groups to work together with peers to examine the relationship between their specific role group and community education and the ways in which they could stimulate their peers to improve role performance and effectiveness. This booklet focuses on community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Community Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Guides,...
The guide is intended to help clarify P.L. 94-142, The Education For All Handicapped Children Act, and its regulations for administrators. The manual is organized around three central topics: an overview of the law and its regulations (background and purpose of the law, major provisions of the regulations, future of special education); effects of P.L. 94-142 on the administrator (accessibility, individualized education programs, parent-school relationship, mainstreaming, inservice education,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education,...
The booklet outlines characteristics and competencies needed by principals in schools serving special education students. Traits of empathy, integrity, honesty, creativity, and imagination are among those considered. Competencies (in terms of knowledge, values and attitudes, and performance) are listed for seven functions: to promote and represent the developing trends and issues which affect special education programs in schools; to foster and participate in constructive staff development; to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role,...
In determining the role of professional religious leadership on the college or university campus, it is first necessary to ascertain and accept the theory that there is and ought to be a symbiotic relationship between religion and higher education. The religious professional, then, herein referred to as the campus chaplain, has a responsibility to the entire university community; that having such responsibility he should in informal ways establish such relationships as are desirable with other...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Clergy, Higher Education, Religion, Religious Education,...
How do the various ideas currently used in conceptualizing and modeling evaluation relate to the administrator? How can he best use them in guiding his institution in evaluation? This paper summarizes some of the major trends of thought related to evaluation and explores them from an administrative rather than from a research or instructional point of view. It presents a framework and discusses some of the issues involved in program evaluation in educational institutions. (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods,...
School counselors play a crucial role when schools face any type of tragedy or loss, many times learning from experience because response plans are not in place. School counselors are called upon to help shape and provide the response to students, staff, and parents. The demands of managing all of the aspects of school tragedy, in addition to the tragedy itself, can be overwhelming. This article provides a framework that will guide school counselors in providing a comprehensive response to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Counselors, Counselor Role, Coping, Grief, Death, Administrator Role, School...
Community organization theories are reviewed and principles of social work group practice are delineated for directors of special education. Focused on are such aspects as worker competencies and attitudes, strategies for community change, and organizational structure. The author briefly related the theoretical information to his experience with local school districts in conducting a census of handicapped children. (CL)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Community Change, Community Role, Exceptional Child Research,...
Because of their direct or indirect impact on a company, relations with its publics have long been a preoccupation of management. This study, based on information received from more than 500 executives representing 368 companies, documents the complex of issues and publics that shapes contemporary corporate external relations efforts and probes the extent to which management's perception of external relations has affected corporate planning in that area. The chapters deal with the nature of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administration, Administrator Role, Administrators, Business, Evaluation Methods,...
Some men are not sensitive to women and the way some men treat or think of women is a problem. Men, especially those in key leadership roles, need to challenge other male colleagues and students and to speak out in support of women if the relationship between men and women is to improve. More specifically, male administrators need to make clear value statements and engage students in an examination of their attitudes and behavior surrounding those values. The goal is to instill a spirit that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Antisocial Behavior, College Students, Higher Education, Males,...
This study gathered data on high school student body presidents' perceptions of the principal's role and sought to determine if these perceptions were significantly affected by differences in geographic location, school size, sex, race, academic success, and parents' occupations among the responding students. Data were gathered through a Likert-type questionnaire that was mailed to 250 student body presidents representing all parts of the United States. The students were asked to indicate the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Administrators, National Surveys, Predictor Variables,...
This monograph consists of 12 short articles written by students enrolled in a basic course in elementary school administration at Indiana State University. The monograph is intended to provide some insight as to what future elementary administrators believe is important in administering an elementary school. Each article focuses on a slightly different dimension of the principal's role and suggests possible modes of action future principals might follow in carrying out that role. Titles of the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrators, Elementary Education,...
The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the problems confronting minority administrators of mental health agencies. Twenty-five minority directors of Community Mental Health Centers were given questionnaires asking for information about their backgrounds and the design, structure, and operation of their respective mental health centers. The major findings concerning the administrators were that the group was 88% male, 50% held masters degrees, and more that 37% had social work...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrators, Community...
At this workshop, opinions were expressed on the value of certain attributes of a president, such as: his personal qualities of self-esteem, intelligence, patience, and idealism; his role as an example to school and community; his integrity and human warmth; his interest in young people; an ability to work hard under pressure without loss of identity; intellectual leadership, both on and off campus; managerial leadership to encourage, inspire, and direct others; ability to delegate authority;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Administrators, Attitudes, College Presidents, Presidents, Two...
The first of six volumes in the "Elementary Principal Series," this booklet identifies three major components of the building administrator's role (as chief administrator, operations manager, and instructional leader) and concentrates on instructional leadership as the key to educational excellence. Research shows that principals spend most of their time on administrative or managerial tasks. Obstacles to exercising instructional leadership may be overcome by clarifying expectations...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Beliefs, Educational Improvement, Elementary Education,...
In order to play a proper role in the making of sound academic policy, the Board of Trustees must begin by taking itself seriously, and the first place for that is the choice of its members. It is essential that some members of the Board should be present or recent members of the professional academic community--teachers, research workers, librarians, or administrators. A judiciously constituted Board should be involved in such pivotal matters of admissions, curriculum, graduation requirements,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Administrators, Educational Administration, Faculty, Higher...
To present a detailed description of what school superintendents actually do, not what they perceive themselves doing or what they ought to do, this project utilized unstructured, nonparticipant observation of six superintendents on the job. Four trained observers recorded the administrators' activities throughout every minute of the workday for one week in the fall, winter, and spring. Different observers were assigned to each day in a week's observation to allow for analysis of interaction...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Interaction...
The commitment of administrators to the work role, the institution, and the career was studied using data from a survey and interviews of mid-level administrators at a large research university. A total of 256 administrators responded to the survey, and 6 participated in followup interviews. Approximately 80 percent of the respondents were found to be primarily committed to the university where employed or the position held. The nature and intensity of reasons for commitment to the work role,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Higher Education, Job Satisfaction,...
In this brief article, the author relates his experiences both as associate director of undergraduate admission at Duke University (North Carolina), and later as director on college placement at the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics. [This article has been reprinted in this 2006 issue of "Journal of College Admission." The article originally appeared in "Journal of College Admission" v160 Sum 1998.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, Universities, Student Placement, College Admission, Administrator...
THIRTY-TWO ITEMS OF BEHAVIOR CONSIDERED CRUCIAL TO SUCCESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STAFF RELATIONSHIPS WERE USED TO DETERMINE THE PERCEPTIONS OF THE FACULTY AND PRINCIPAL OF SIX SCHOOL STAFFS IN A DISTRICT OF 40,000 RELATIVE TO (1) THE IMPORTANCE THE FACULTY ATTACHED TO SOME OF THE PRINCIPALS' ACTIONS, (2) THE STAFF'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE VALUE HE PLACED ON THESE BEHAVIORS, AND (3) THE SEIMILARITY OF BOTH VALUES. EACH PRINCIPAL AND TEACHER WAS ASKED FIRST TO Q-SORT THE BEHAVIORS INTO SIX CATEGORIES,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Role, Elementary Schools, Faculty, Leadership, Perception, Principals,...
This paper presents findings of a study that analyzed the extent of burnout among Mississippi high school principals. Specifically, it identified the level of burnout among Mississippi high school principals, the relationship between certain demographic variables and burnout, and the relationship between burnout and personality type. The level of burnout among high school principals in Mississippi schools as a total group as well as within specific demographic variables of age, sex, race, years...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Burnout, High Schools, Job...
