Cordell Wynn, retiring president of Stillman College (Alabama) has substantially increased the budget, enrollment, endowment, and faculty and improved the campus infrastructure of the private, historically black college during his 16-year tenure. The administrator is known on campus for an open, responsive administrative style and availability to…

Sixty-one interns, who completed the Master of School Administration program at a North Carolina university, and their 49 principal-mentors, when asked what interpersonal and professional characteristics and assignment concerns they perceive as important when selecting and assigning mentors, listed strong leadership abilities and high…

Reports on a study of the proportional representation of women administrators by ethnicity from 1991 to 1997 in a sample of 1,030 two-year colleges. States that Hispanic-serving, urban, California two-year colleges and the percentage of women faculty of color entered as significant positive predictors of change in the representation of women…

Provides demographic profiles from "Executive Educator's" fourth annual survey of U.S. school executives. Regarding disaster preparedness, only a small percentage of all districts in earthquake-prone areas have earthquake and fire action plans. Concerning controversial issues, teaching about substance abuse, child abuse, and teen suicide meets…

Based on results of a national survey, the managerial behavior of college registrars (n=303) and admissions officers (n=343) is defined and analyzed, pointing out similarities and differences in management styles (coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching) and identifying situations in which particular management…

Worker competence is defined and basic guidelines for competence-centered supervision are outlined. Procedures of evaluating the supervisee's competence are suggested. The processes of competence-centered supervision are analyzed, and the usefulness of a unifying scheme of competence for practice, supervision, and education in social work is…

A study tracked and compared a university official with little management training and a bank manager with considerable in-house training through their daily activities. Managers in both contexts followed a similar working pattern, episodic in organization and people-intensive in orientation. Role differences were found in degree rather than kind.…

Presents day care center directors with some strategies for uncovering, identifying, and preventing staff dissatisfaction. (BB)

Principals capable of turning a troubled school around share certain characteristics that make them successful. Vision and dedication are just two of these traits. (SI)

Describes a study which examined the factors that affected the career paths of directors of large Canadian libraries. The discussion covers the influences of experiences in libraries, chance, and personal concerns on career decisions. The achievements of the directors are described and two directorship styles are identified. (7 references)…

Sweden's Karolinska Institute has developed a course in leadership that emphasizes these leader qualities: enthusiasm and support for the program's aims and operations; goal-setting for the department; insight into people's motivation; and an ability to deal with conflict. (MSE)

Describes a study designed to identify relationships between selected characteristics of postsecondary occupational program administrators (i.e., locus of control, age, and years of experience) and their use of strategic planning behaviors. Indicates that most administrators lack adequate knowledge and understanding of strategic planning. (MAB)

Describes Delphi study which identified the skills and characteristics needed by community college presidents of the future. Top ranked competencies were delegation, personnel selection, and decision making as leadership skills; motivation, use of power, and entrepreneurship as group-related skills; and judgment, commitment, and integrity as…

An ongoing cooperative research project in North Carolina provides some revealing data on principals who have successfully introduced school-based management. The project tracks 26 principals committed to teacher empowerment. The most supportive principals were strongly committed to school improvement, unafraid of risks or open communication lines…

Forty young leaders in higher education are profiled, including college and university administrators, faculty, policy analysts, consultants, and an evangelical leader. All were surveyed concerning leadership and the future of higher education, the role of mentors in their careers, and ways in which they are learning to lead. Several patterns are…