This article describes a project undertaken as part of a cross-campus strategic planning effort. The project documented current campus practices and systems in use for collecting, analyzing and reporting key research metrics. The project identified organizational issues around siloed data collection and lack of clarity on data stewards, data…

Robust partnerships between state chief academic officers (SAOs) and institutional chief academic officers (CAOs) align administrative procedures and foster a shared vision for student achievement that leverages the benefits of state and institutional coordination. This report outlines how four states--Louisiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, and…

The development of MCTYI (multicampus two-year institutions) represents a contemporary effort to solve the problems of population impact, economic and social necessity. This study was designed to determine the current placement of management authority and responsibility, to determine suggested changes in the placement of management authority and…

One area where sex discrimination has received relatively little attention is in recruiting and hiring administrators. This research examines how many women are working in top administrative posts in higher educational institutions in the United States. (Author/RK)

The recent drop in public faith in educational leaders does not mean that all segments of the public are disenchanted with America's schools. (Editor/RK)

Article listed the latest developments in education in the Netherlands. (RK)

The result of a survey carried out within the framework of the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education, this directory is based solely on information collected from member institutions. A goal is to encourage member institutions to establish direct contacts among themselves. A list of planning, managerial, and administrative…

The independence and objectivity of institutional researchers is discussed. It is suggested that university administration has some control over institutional research but that administrators do not dictate the findings or conclusions of the research. (BH)

This report examines the issue of sexual discrimination within British higher education and argues that further and higher educational services as a whole are discriminatory environments for women. The report's first section involves interviews with six women who had achieved notable success in the field of further and higher education management.…

Proceedings from the fifth annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR) focus on issues affecting higher education and the relationship of these issues to the institutional research function. Included are general session addresses by Charles A. Lyons and Dick Robinson that discuss the implications of Judge…