This research project explored the manner in which veteran school principals learn of, and become committed to, new perspectives and practices. Personal stories of formative and transformative change from the careers of 23 school principals were collected and analyzed comparatively. Four analytic frameworks emerged from the project and provide a…

A profile of the purchasing agent, determined by a survey, indicates personal, professional and institutional characteristics. (Editor)

This paper orients itself to explore the mission of art institutions in society, analyze the characteristics of art as a "good" (and the business repercussions of those characteristics) and subsequently attempts to highlight the specific challenges art poses for managerial processes. (Author)

Effective debate skills make for good boardmanship. (Author)

Believing that there is substantial need to reappraise much of what's being done under the guise of innovation, the author hopes to stimulate administrators and teachers to evaluate programs in terms of actual contributions made to the teaching-learning experience. (Editor)

Author differentiates and describes flexibility and drift and also unites them with the neutral concept of style flex" in discussing managerial effectiveness; checklists are included. (Editor/SP)

Effective departmental chairmen may exhibit characteristics such as ability to recruit promising faculty, a capacity for decisive thinking and action, and support of good teaching; less desirable characteristics were being first among equals, fund raising, and being highly identified with one's own discipline. (Editor)

Co-director of the NASSP study dealing with the work of assistant principals discusses various aspects of the study, including the crisis orientation" of most assistant principals. (SP)

Describes a comprehensive plan of procedure for the selection of a school superintendent. (MF)

A reexamination of the significant research done in the decade from 1956-1966 and a revision of this list to include work up to 1971. Human characteristics, equality of educational opportunity, development of the individual, nature of intelligence, methodology of educational research, and principles of learning are some of the areas covered. (RB)

A history of Finley's tenure of office. (MF)

With demonstrations, strikes and protest widespread on the campus, many colleges have turned to men who score high on administrative ability but low on charisma, whose managerial style may provide peace in our time but prevent needed institutional change. (Editor)