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Katz, Malcolm – School Administrator, 1993
Stylistic friction between superintendent and school board underlies much of disharmony that often characterizes these relationships. The most successful matches occur between high corporate-type boards and high task-oriented superintendents or between high familial-type boards and high relationship-type superintendents. Friction reduction or…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence
Dunnerstick, Robert D. – Executive Educator, 1992
Offers new superintendents some practical survival strategies, including knowing the board, administrators, and union; understanding the power base and the power of administrator visibility; building good board meetings; and holding their families dear. (MLH)
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Board Administrator Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education, Meetings
Herman, Jerry J. – American School Board Journal, 1991
To make conflict resolution easier, this article advises board members to determine nature of the conflict and choose an appropriate course of action. Situation might call for quick, decisive action; establishing a discussion date; reaching a temporary consensus; or working with involved parties to reach a positive resolution. Sidebar offers tips…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Conflict Resolution, Coping
Basinger, Julianne – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2002
Describes how, although trustees used to shake hands with a new president to seal a deal, both are now insisting on formal terms of employment. (EV)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, College Presidents, Contracts, Governing Boards
Herron, Orley; Carter, Jill Herron – Trusteeship, 2001
A former university president and a trustee (who are also father and daughter) apply the rules of good business partnerships to communication between boards and presidents and provide the president and trustee viewpoints on these rules: communicate, be a team, be honest, and be trustworthy. (EV)
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, College Presidents, Credibility, Governing Boards
Joiner, Lottie L. – American School Board Journal, 2001
A controversy in Durham, NC, has joined two principals in a shared responsibility: turning around the district's two lowest-performing high schools. Henry Pankey identifies a list of goals for Hillside High School, among them a 95 percent attendance rate, and 75 percent of students at grade level. Larry McDonald, who was appointed to succeed…
Descriptors: Administrator Effectiveness, Administrator Responsibility, Board Administrator Relationship, High Schools
Ferguson, Judith A. – School Administrator, 2004
No graduate program can adequately prepare a novice superintendent for the myriad situations she or he likely will face during the first few years. In addition to learning the job, today's superintendent faces challenges unlike those of prior generations. Perhaps the most difficult one is gaining an understanding of how to work effectively with…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Boards of Education, Administrator Role, Job Skills
Bornstein, Rita – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
Strong relationships between presidents and boards are built on communication, education, transparency, and accountability. Boards that are well educated and informed, involved in establishing policy and strategy, and fully aware of new initiatives will support a president through difficult times. This paper offers a comprehensive, knowledgeable…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Presidents, Board Administrator Relationship, Interpersonal Communication
McLaughlin, Judith Block – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
When the AGB task force on the state of the Presidency in American Higher Education was meeting last fall in Washington, D.C., to deliberate about the role of the academic presidency, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education convened across town to examine issues ranging from access to affordability to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Presidents, Governing Boards, Board Administrator Relationship
Cox, Edward P. – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2006
The superintendent/board relationship continues to be a subject of particular interest for those who study school leadership and those who serve in the superintendency. One issue that will likely be addressed during any superintendent employment discussion is the inclusion of pay for performance incentives. The widespread use of executive bonuses…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Performance Contracts, Morale, Instructional Leadership
Young, I. Phillip – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2006
In a recent issue of the "AASA Journal of Scholarship and Practice," Hilling (2004) described procedures for obtaining a fair compensation process for principals, and the thrust of this work was on establishing internal consistency for salaries among administrators. This article addresses similar concerns, but differs in several important ways.…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Labor Economics, Labor Market, School Districts
Harris, Anthony – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
The author describes his initial introduction to school board service. The historical context in which the author became a school board member is described as a means of highlighting the challenges that he faced as a new board member as well as the challenges that public education faced in the early and mid 1980s in a southern state. Stories and…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Personal Narratives, Public Education, Educational History
Baliles, Gerald L. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2006
The expanding pressures on the modern academic president today range from the ever-present demands for fund-raising, to calls for greater accountability and productivity, to proliferating special-interest groups, to steadily harsh criticism from inside and outside the academy. In this pressure-cooker environment, it takes a special kind of…
Descriptors: Presidents, Governing Boards, Expectation, Fund Raising
Martin, Bette; Scott, Dorothy O. – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1997
This booklet examines the role of the professional governing board secretary and offers guidelines for carrying out this responsibility effectively. While a wide range of responsibilities of board secretaries is noted, the board secretary's basic responsibilities center on supporting the governing board's operations, ensuring that institutional…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Board Administrator Relationship, College Administration, Governance
Sharp, William L.; Newman, Isadore – 1991
The relationship between the board of education of a public school system and the school superintendent is extremely important to the functioning and progress of the system. First-time Ohio superintendents were surveyed at the end of their first and second years about their perceptions of their relationships with their boards of education (N=58).…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Boards of Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Job Satisfaction