The participant's manual contains training materials for a national conference on cultivating media relations in agencies concerned with independent living for people with disabilities. Preliminary materials include the conference agenda, background information about the trainers, organizational information on Independent Living Research…

The Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS) has served as a voice for quality assurance and promulgation of standards in higher education for over 25 years. CAS was established to promote inter-association efforts to address quality assurance, student learning, and professional integrity. CAS includes membership of over…

Criticizes the rapidly escalating expenditures in space exploration and suggests the establishment of a moderate unmanned space program in place of the space shuttle in an effort to allocate enough budget for energy research and pollution control. (CC)

A satire on the application of scientific management principles to a state library agency. Covers relationships of the state librarian to staff, the profession, and state and federal governments. (Author/JS)

Speech presented at the 54th annual NASSP Convention. (EJS)

Suggests that a marketing approach can be applied to community mental health centers. Marketing is a management orientation of providing services for, not to, patients in a systematic manner, which can help mental health centers improve services, strengthen community image, achieve financial independence and aid in staff recruitment. (Author)

Instructional specialists in industry are usually also managers. They are responsible for addressing the skill and knowledge requirements of their employees as well as considering the overall needs of the organization. They provide effective training and solve organizational problems. (JOW)

This essay examines the growth of professionalism in educational administration and concludes that early promise was not fulfilled, mainly because social and political factors influenced training programs and practice more than did research and theory. Areas in which educational administration still falls short of professionalism are discussed.…

This review is an attempt to understand the responsibilities of governing boards regarding decision making in academic affairs, i.e., those decisions which have a direct bearing on the educational curriculum, the quality of instruction, the instructors and the students. (Author/PN)

This paper delineates six attributes of an ideal high school governance structure: respect, freedom, rationality, flexibility, equality, and involvement of staff and students in the decision-making process. (Author/SJL)

From his extension experience in Wayne County, Michigan, the third most populous county in the nation, the author offers some principles to consider in enhancing staff and program effectiveness: resource assessment, staff utilization, program funding, time management, and program visibility. (MF)

Examines how instructional development processes can be successfully managed. Principles of management are offered for setting precise goals; acceptance of these goals; and maximizing self-concept through formal rewards that are goal oriented, through performance evaluation, and through change analysis. (RAO)

Variations in the role behaviors of chairmen are examined within the context of Biglan's model and suggestions are offered to enhance the selection, development, and evaluation of these academic administrators. (LBH)

A camp director explains his supervisory style as being based on one-minute goals, one-minute praise, and one-minute reprimands; his experience as a parent; a decentralized model of staff supervision; and building relationships with staff by talking and listening to them. Gives American Camping Association standards for staff supervision and…

Presents methods to gain management support for information resource center projects. Topics include: expressing expected results; and understanding the project in terms of business and organizational objectives, competitors' actions, internal needs, external conditions, customer needs, vendor support, and colleagues' experiences. (LRW)