This document presents 2 separate publications under 1 cover. The first publication, entitled American Fraternities: An Agenda of Needed Research, suggests possible topics for research into fraternities. Among the areas indicated are: (1) the history and development of the fraternity system; (2) the history of student organizations as a whole; (3)…

The procedures for establishing a public broadcasting station are outlined in this book. The first section, devoted to planning for necessary prebroadcast activities, discusses the kinds of licensee groups and the search to determine available radio frequencies or open TV channels. The second section discusses the functions of various national…

Available from: Comparative Administration Research Institute, Kent State University Press, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242. (IRT)

Outlines the major defining dimensions of participation and their interdependencies. A broad conceptual framework is presented in which it may be possible to integrate seemingly fragmented issues on participation. (Author)

Directions and goals of the Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE). (KP)

Hierarchy can accommodate professionals and professional freedom and it is capable of recognizing, nuturing, and responding to its members' needs in ways that are beyond other forms of organization. (Author)

Effectiveness of substitute teachers is related to the implementation of strategy for their utilization. If substitutes are expected to do more than control students, then teachers must leave lesson plans, activities, and materials that can be used by anyone. Cooperation and coordination are essential for substitutes' success. (MD)

Discusses influence of Finnish Institute for Children's Literature (SNI) on writing, illustrating, translating, and marketing of children's books in Finland, and notes efforts of Finnish Section of International Board on Books for Young People to make children's literature and connected research better known to public. Publications of SNI are…

Explores factors associated with role conflict and ambiguity in top-level administrators in selected public agencies. Expands the range of antecedent factors currently used in the analysis of role conflict and ambiguity by examining an organization's relations with other organizations as well as its internal characteristics. (Author/IRT)

Results indicated an absence of single dimensions that distinguish between successful and unsuccessful organizations; however, three general areas serve to differentiate organizations in the two categories. Available from: NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, P.O. Box 9155, Rosslyn Station, Arlington, Virginia 22209, $4.75 single copy.…

A survey was conducted of 174 senior student affairs officers (SSAOs) at public institutions in the United States concerning their perceptions of the role of campus-based student religious organizations (CbSROs) in the recruitment and retention of students. Eighty-three surveys were returned. In general, the SSAOs perceived campus-based religious…

Committees are invaluable in higher education if they are used for appropriate purposes and administered properly. (Author)

Speaks to the need to develop frameworks of analysis for those who are considering adopting a two-tier system of education governance to employ in their studies of the operation of actual two-tiered systems. The authors examine both formal and nonformal structural factors of the two-tiered Metropolitan Toronto School System and use the Detroit…

A study of thirty academic departments in fifteen universities examined the relationships of the functional prerequisites to personal need satisfactions. The findings raised questions about the relationship between organizational achievement and personal satisfaction in the academic department. (Author/JB)

A resource-directive model is developed that specializes the organization's goals and decisionmaking activities into quasiautonomous units and that circumvents interunit dependencies (or externalities) in decentralization. The organization is considered to act by the sequential process of decisionmaking, operating, and then, on the basis of this…