This book contains eight articles that explore the relationship between school superintendents and boards of education. In the first article, "Partners in Progress," Matthew King explains that superintendents and boards can model the values and behaviors that they espouse for students and staff when they collaborate. The second article, "Public…

The Interprofessional Education and Training (IPET) Network recently assessed what is needed to foster a vital nationwide movement to develop interprofessional education and training as part of the normal mode of professional preparation for child and family services. It was decided that the top priority should be to facilitate the exchange of…

Mentoring is of proven benefit to a variety of organizations, including academic libraries. A formal mentoring program for library faculty in a medium-sized academic library was created to take advantage of what is offered. Goals and objectives were established, the responsibilities of mentor, protege, and the professional stakeholders were…

Mentoring novice students and faculty members by experienced members has become a vital component in rehabilitation counseling education. In this paper the mentoring process from a faculty-student and an existing faculty-new faculty viewpoint is considered. First, there is an overview of how mentoring both globally and specifically relates to…

This paper describes the structured faculty mentoring program at the Pittsburgh Technical Institute (Pennsylvania), which is designed to provide a system of support for new faculty, who encounter many stressful situations on a daily basis, and provide guidance and encouragement. One of the primary goals of the program is to improve the quality of…

A study investigated the working relationship between writing program directors and writing center directors nationally, to develop a picture of such a relationship and to compare the nature and status of the two positions and the backgrounds of the people who hold them. In all, about 650 surveys were distributed to members of professional…

This document is comprised of the two 1999 issues of a newsletter addressing the administrative concerns of child-care centers, learning centers, preschools, nursery schools, kindergartens, and intergenerational centers. Issue 218 features articles on problems with parents such as late pickups, constant complainers, complaints about other…

The concept of career education as a fully integrated system offers vocational educators a chance to join as full partners in an enlarged view of the educational enterprise; partisanship, however, must be abandoned, and liberation from a limiting definition of vocational education must be achieved. (AJ)

Researchers at the Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration spent the 1970-71 school year conducting onsite observational studies of four schools in their first year of implementing differentiated staffing. This article describes the course of events in the schools during that year and summarizes the change problems revealed by…

Examines the correlates of three separate configurations of teacher participation in school system decisionmaking. Defining decisional participation in terms of differences in the number of decisional instances in which they actually participate, the identified decisional patterns are Deprivation, Equilibrium, and Saturation. Four hypotheses…

Discusses the pros and cons of administrators electing to engage in collective negotiations. Presents five changing conditions that administrators should recognize in developing their negotiation strategies and six courses of action that superintendents and boards of education could take to discourage the formation of administrator negotiating…

A study to evaluate the effect of a resident-staffed continuity clinic providing immediate subspecialty consulting rather than referral is reported. The study compared pediatric and nonpediatric clinics. A reduction in pediatric subspecialty visits occurred where general pediatricians could be expected to have substantial expertise. (MSE)

A study of corporate giving patterns to Northwestern University supported two long-held beliefs about fund-raising. Those beliefs are that extensive cultivation and substantial corporate ties increase giving. However, the study discredited the beliefs that the old-boy network and extensive alumni contacts increase giving. (MSE)

Faculty can be helpful by providing commentaries to newspaper op-ed pages, but such a public relations program requires consistency, tact, good internal communications, thoughtfulness, and marketing skills. (MSE)