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Kenealy, Kay; Herrick, Kate – Campus Activities Programming, 1990
Individuals tend to avoid situations they perceive as risky, but positive risk-taking experiences allow people to continue seeking challenge and growth. Campus activities programing may involve risk taking or leadership in group risk taking, either in the activities themselves or in program planning. Leaders must relate risks to group goals to…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Group Dynamics, Higher Education, Individual Development
McDonnell, Pia – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1979
Alternative graduate education is explored from the perspective of one student who has participated in two nontraditional programs. Issues highlighted include: changing roles and responsibilities for faculty and students, problems with shared decision making, need for team building and problem solving, and importance of open communication.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Expectation, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
Langley, James M. – Currents, 1994
College and university advancement managers offer these keys to motivating employees: open communication, acknowledgement of management style, team building, encouragement of innovation, spreading opportunities broadly, promoting personal growth, creating reward systems, evaluating fairly, and strong leadership. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Group Dynamics, Higher Education
Download full textAmerican Association of Colleges of Nursing, Washington, DC. – 1981
The rights and responsibilities of deans as persons as they serve as heads of baccalaureate or higher degree programs in nursing are considered by six deans who contributed to a continuing education workshop series. Rheba de Tornyay considers qualities and personal characteristics of effective and less effective leaders, professional image,…
Descriptors: Academic Deans, Academic Education, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Responsibility
Watson, Rollin J. – 1980
The role of college student personnel administration in serving adult learners is considered. Historical trends in the student personnel function and the philosophy that student personnel workers are educators who create programs that contribute to the student's overall educational growth are examined. Changes for the student development personnel…
Descriptors: Adult Students, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development
Miles, John C., Ed.; Priest, Simon, Ed. – 1990
Adventure education seeks to promote individual growth and development through the purposeful planning and implementation of educational processes that include risk in some way. This book introduces major topics in the broad literature of adventure education by bringing together 53 writings of adventure education practitioners. The writings are…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
