It is the thesis of this paper that the most important task of many tasks of the community school director is to organize the various constituencies in his community. This does not mean that he organizes programs in which his constituents can participate, rather that he organizes people through the medium of activities. (Author)

Having helped to solve the myriad difficulties of opening a ghetto day-care center, the authors found they were accepted gratefully as advocates by the parents committee they had formed--but that the parents wanted to run the center in their own way, an outcome they applaud as healthy and encouraging. (PD)

Drawing on examples and evidence from social science research on the diffusion of ideas, social movements, and several other related fields, nine propositions dealing with the interrelationships between social structure and social change are explored. (Author/MB)

Argues against government intervention in college and university governance to solve campus problems. Cites legal and other sources to support the position that the institutions, "in the preservation of its tradition and function, must be mater in its own household. (Author/WM)

Many of our models of the university espouse a monolithic concept of autonomy. The Kantian model, based on specific realms of state intervention and nonintervention, should be explored more thoroughly because it allows for intervention while maintaining some notion of autonomy. (Author/MSE)

Longitudinal survey research permits examination of the influence profiles of free-standing faculty senates and coexisting senates and faculty unions on U.S. college campuses. The forces prompting flow of power away from faculty deliberative bodies are discussed and the future of senates in hard times is examined. (MSE)

Suggestions include: reducing tensions, establishing staff requirements early, enhancing the academic establishment, resuscitating lagging departments, beginning a public relations campaign, examining the curriculum, reallocating the budget, strengthening management, supporting imaginative leadership, and providing financing, imagination, and…

Four questions must be addressed in assessing the direction of higher education: (1) What should potential learners learn? (2) Who should have the opportunity for systematic higher education? (3) How should a desirable pattern of institutions be determined, organized, and governed? and (4) How should resources be provided, distributed, and…

Using 118 sixth-grade Hispanic students from 10 California elementary schools, the study indicated that specific power differences (student, parent, and staff power) and curriculum factors (school's level of multicultural curriculum) were indeed mechanisms of symbolic violence as they were related to ethnic salience and attitudes toward students'…

The quality and duration of the presidency may depend on a stressful interplay between personal life, including that of family members, and institutional life. Personal and professional isolation, relationship with the faculty, the spouse's role, and the recruitment and selection process are issues to be considered by boards and candidates. (MSE)

Starting from the assumption that law schools are intensely political, these issues are discussed: the first-year experience, ideological content of the curriculum, noncurricular practices that train students for the legal hierarchy, and ways for progressive students to deal with the experience. A utopian law school transformation is proposed.…

Superintendents who introduce team management into school districts are compared to King Arthur and the Round Table and advised that team management will not endure, at least in its original form. (MLF)

Viewed from the perspective of administrative law, labor law, or just higher education, the Yeshiva decision does not make sense. It would be appropriate in future litigation to compel the court to do what it refused to do here, that is to address the extent to which the industrial analogy applies to colleges and universities. (MSE)