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Peer reviewedCreswell, John W.; And Others – Planning and Changing, 1979
This test of the Biglan model demonstrated that differences did exist on certain tasks for clusters of department chairpersons. The tasks identified for each cluster represent professional development needs common to all chairs in the cluster and different from the needs of chairs in the other clusters. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Department Heads, Educational Needs, Higher Education
Download full textSeagren, Alan T.; Creswell, John W. – 1985
Management tasks of department chairs and their perceived needs for staff development were studied in Australian Colleges of Advanced Education (CAE), U.S. state colleges, and a U.S. university. Data were obtained from 679 Australian and 98 U.S. department heads, using similar instruments developed by the Nebraska-Lincoln Task Force on Management…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Comparative Education, Department Heads, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCreswell, John W.; Brown, Martha L. – Review of Higher Education, 1992
A study examined how department chairpersons enhanced research performance of college and university faculty. By applying grounded theory methods to a corpus of 33 interviews with chairpersons, the study resulted in a typology of chair roles (administrative, advocacy, interpersonal), then assessed the process of assistance for faculty at four…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Development, College Administration, College Faculty
Peer reviewedCreswell, John W.; England, Marijane E. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1994
Literature about the roles of college deans and department heads is reviewed, issues confronting these administrators are discussed, and their information needs are examined. A guide to the categories, types, and sources of useful information is provided. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, College Planning, Deans
Roskens, Ronald W.; Creswell, John W. – 1981
The Biglan model, a theoretical framework for empirically examining the differences among subject areas, classifies according to three dimensions: adherence to common set of paradigms (hard or soft), application orientation (pure or applied), and emphasis on living systems (life or nonlife). Tests of the model are reviewed, and a further test is…
Descriptors: Classification, College Faculty, College Students, Colleges
Peer reviewedMiller, Michael T.; Creswell, John W. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1998
Explores the beliefs and values of women in two-year college departmental chair positions. Finds that dominant beliefs are related to educational philosophies and program outcomes, while secondary beliefs and values are related to student-centered issues, suggesting that women in chair positions have a traditional view of themselves as internal…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Administration, Community Colleges, Department Heads
Creswell, John W.; And Others – 1990
This book champions the importance of chairing an academic department (or division) and focuses attention on the strategies "excellent" chairs use in building a positive work environment for faculty and releasing individual faculty potential. The framework is based on human, organizational, and career development; systems theory; and interpersonal…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Administrators, College Administration
Jungnickel, Paul W.; Creswell, John W. – 1992
This study examined workplace correlates (departmental and college) of scholarly performance in 296 college faculty members from 67 schools of pharmacy in the United States. The study estimated a model of 3-year scholarly performance through the exploration of six sets of correlates: demographic; affiliation; collaboration; research experiences…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation, Demography
