Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can improve systems to enrich the lives of others are needed today more than ever. In this updated edition, John Hoyle identifies vision, motivation, flexibility, and openness to invention and opportunity as key characteristics of effective leaders, and challenges school administrators to think outside the…

Urban school superintendents hold one of the most important and challenging jobs in America's education system. The Council of the Great City Schools (GCS) represents the majority of large urban school districts in the country. Though there are approximately 17 thousand school districts in the country, the Council's 65 districts serve…

This qualitative study investigated perceptions of resilient, transformational, successful women leaders regarding their own resiliency and leadership. The ten participants provided information during semi-structured, open-ended, audio taped interviews which were transcribed, hand coded, and then analyzed with QSR N6 software. Findings indicated…

Describes the characteristics of school superintendents, research and training programs for their improvement, and shifts in the social, economic, and political milieu which have caused changes in their role and functions. (Author/MJL)

Summarizing the bureaucratic, collegial, and political models of university governance, the authors apply organizational theories and make recommendations based upon the Baldridge political model which can help solve conflict in schools of allied health. (SK)

Perceptions of actual and ideal leadership behaviors of male and female department heads were examined using data gathered from 49 university department heads and 427 faculty members. Findings indicate similarities in male and female perceptions of desirable attributes, of own leadership behavior, and in proneness to view own leadership behavior…

Describes five characteristics of community college administrators who have successful interpersonal relationships. Suggests that they exhibit positive thoughts about colleagues, develop openness in interpersonal relationships, use a team approach, employ a wide decision-making base, and are concerned about how things appear to others. (AJL)

Based on a survey conducted during the Persian Gulf War, a study focused on political views and war attitudes of faculty who direct college honors programs. Academic disciplines and age distributions are analyzed as possible explanations for directors' greater liberalism and dissent tendencies compared to other faculty. Also discussed are…

Understanding and communication between the off-campus culture of practicing professionals and the on-campus culture of academic research and education require special skills of the professional school dean including maintaining a sense of fairness, insisting on excellence, encouraging collaboration, demonstrating respect for faculty governance…

Examined variables contributing to self-awareness and co-worker agreement on 30 managerial characteristics. Study 1 collected data from 233 management students on difficulty of rating different characteristics. Study 2 collected 283 self, supervisor, peer, and subordinate ratings for 36 middle managers. Results showed positive correlation between…

Identifies the competencies that faculty members believe their department chairs need to possess in order to function effectively as academic leaders. Considers whether those competencies are generalizable across different academic departments. Assesses the degree of relationship between perceptions of department chairs' competencies and overall…

Focuses on defining the role of the library director in one-person public, academic, and special libraries. A profile survey of 67 such directors showing their career paths is presented. Data on education and training, staffing, issues of concern, job satisfaction, and demographic characteristics are provided. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/KRN)

A pull-out desk reference of key school statistics, this 11th annual edition provides key indicators of school performance and progress in areas such as test scores and educational technology, school construction and school bond issues, demographic profiles of school board members and school administrators, and education indicators by region and…

Navajo school board members felt that American Indian administrators exhibited better administrative skills and had a better sense of the cultural context of their roles than non-Indian administrators. Perceptions of personal characteristics of the two groups, such as honesty, intelligence, and self-control, did not differ. Non-Indians hold 43 of…

This article discusses the reasons why business leaders join the boards of directors of nonprofit organizations such as universities, as well as their performance on such boards. It argues that board members from the business community need to be just as disciplined in assessing nonprofit organizations as they are in profit-making settings. (MDM)