Argues that in a society where policy is a function of power, academia is lost unless it has the will to throw off its infatuation with form as against substance and unite under strong leadership to create its own establishment for bartering with the national establishment. (JT)

Historical perspective on the development of collaborative and adversarial models of participatory governance in community college organization. The collaborative model depends on shared values among its participants, while the adversary model operates by power struggle between groups. The decision on which model to adopt requires self-study…

An analysis of instructional leadership in the community college which takes into account several issues in the uses of authority: external and internal influences, the role of the faculty leader, barriers to participatory governance. Recommendations are made toward the survival of instructional leadership. (BB)

The values of professionals and quasi-professionals in school have not been sufficiently consensual to allow change agent strategies to work as they should. The disadvantage of change agents in education lies in applying methods that are largely educational to situations that are fundamentally political. (JD)

Teacher preference may well be the underlying element that determines the association between instructional formats and control activities. (Author)

Patterns in which education and intellectual life are affected by the transactions between industrialized nations and the Third World are analyzed, with a focus on organized educational systems, especially in post-secondary education, and less formal structures such as book publishing, mass media, and serious journals. (MJB)

Solutions to the educational problems of the black community will ultimately require the mobilization of the political strength of the black community on a number of fronts (employment, culture, technology, international relations), and the exercise of effective black decision making authority within each of them. (JD)

Dewey's notion of applying the method of social intelligence to the solution of social problems is critically reviewed with special emphasis on his failure to come to terms with the question of concentrated social power in America. Theoretical ambiguities as well as unclear ideas on the practical agencies of social change are pointed out. (DS)

Diaries, recordings, and analyses by participants and nonparticipant observers are used in this extensive case study of a developing organization. The study leads to the inference that an important element influencing the organization is female dominance and male response to that dominance. (JMF)

It seems evident that heads in the English schools in the northwest have tended to retain control of both physical and human resources at the same time as there has been development toward participative management. (Author/IRT)

A case study of a woman manager and her staff within a mental health center is analyzed in an attempt to interrelate organizational structure, leadership style, and staff group dynamics. The approach to the exercise of authority is sociopsychological. Available from: JAB S Order Dept., NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, P.O. Box 9155,…

The university grapevine is described as an informal communication system developed out of basic human needs of belonging, influencing, and being accepted by a group. This article discusses when and why it becomes most active in the institution, and how it can be controlled. (LBH)

Focuses on demands by women for greater resources and choices in intercollegiate athletics as a response to Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972. Concludes that, although some positive changes have resulted from poltical intervention and social change, full equality in intercollegiate athletics is unlikley in the near future.…

This paper develops a theory of sex-role stereotyping and power use in terms of how people interact in daily life situations. It is demonstrated that women have less access, in reality and in expectations, to concrete resources and competence leaving them with helpless modes of influence. (Author/AM)

British local authority and decision making procedures are described for community developers. Included are potential ways of influencing the authority system, and problems and areas of weakness that may be encountered in dealing with the system. (ABM)