To achieve success in the community, the community educator must understand how power is used by the local power structure and show the community leaders how community education will help their community. (Author/MLF)

It is in cases where disruptive students are dealt with by school disciplinarians possessing extensive discretionary power that the school's recognition or denial of student rights and interest assumes sharpest focus. (MJB)

Explores the position of community college president and the qualities including intelligence, political wisdom, and a willingness to work hard, which affects presidential tenure and longevity. Suggests techniques of timing, reassurance, building on exising concerns, respecting the past, persuasion, compromise, and co-opting. (TP)

While a largely undergraduate population will probably be unsuccessful at unionization, the student voice will discover or create new methods of involvement in collective bargaining negotiations. Administrations should take the initiative in resolving the student role. (Author/LBH)

The relationship between a group's power and prestige or status hierarchy and group members' patterns of reward allocation was investigated. The addition of evidence concerning actual task performance results in the alignment of reward and status rankings and encourages the use of distribution rules stressing equity as opposed to equality.…

In this second of a four-part series, the kind of resource development that is going on in the Four Corners region and how it affects the Navajo people living there are discussed. (NQ)

Asserts that the study of human behavior is the study of social interaction. Describes a theoretical perspective from sociology and shows how it relates to the alcoholic family. Analyzes the dynamics within a family affected by alcoholism to examine who has the power, who maintains control, how one loses power, and how power is exhibited. (NB)

Men's power is emphasized in the family power literature on marital decision making. Little attention has been paid to women's power, accrued through their deeper embeddedness in intrafamilial roles. Micro-level analysis of family power demonstrates that women's positions in the family power structure rest not on the horizontal marital tie but…

Explores the relationship between libraries and archives, given that archives frequently are located administratively and physically in libraries. The reasons for this organizational cohabitation, and the need to recognize archives as a unit distinct from the library, are discussed. (CLB)

The purpose of this study was to determine the levels at which decisions are generally made in the public schools of North Carolina and the amount of autonomy vested in the principalship. A questionnaire mailed randomly to 128 principals resulted in 89 usable replies. Results are presented. (MT)

Explored relative decision-making authority of husbands and wives in 47 single-career and 54 dual-career families. Found that in dual-career families, husbands had less power and wives had more power than in single-career families. Relative power of spouses was not significantly different in two family types. Dual-career families were more…

Third World adoption of the Western university and the accompanying Eurocentric system of information flow is criticized as sometimes being counterproductive and alien to developing nations. The potential for a self-reliant, interdependent higher education system among Third World countries is discussed. (MSE)

Explores the concepts of authority, patriarchy, and professionalization as they relate to professions in which women predominate--teaching, nursing, librarianship, and social work. Sex-typing of jobs and qualitative differences between male- and female-dominated professions are considered. Sixteen references are listed. (MES)

If administrators want to succeed as decision-makers and provide leadership based on consensus, they must include certain realizations in their political philosophies and strategies. Works on organizational power provide suggestions. (4 references) (CJH)

The author presents and discusses some basic characteristics of effective coalitions. These characteristics include clearly defined mission, emphasis of common ideology and goals, equal power among groups, effective leadership, overlapping interests and frequent member contacts, image of power, variable resources, and appropriate termination. (CT)