Purchasing, one of the most highly specialized activities in school administration, involves securing material or service in the right quantity and quality, at the right time, and for the right price. This handbook, intended as a guide for purchasing agents, details principles essential for operating a school purchasing office in New York State.…

Enumerates principles and practices helpful in improving library administration while coping with budget cuts. (PF)

Presents arguments for maintaining the integrity of academic standards in a competitive and increasingly commercialized market. (Author/PG)

This paper proposes a method for understanding the relationships among the various value systems that underlie administrative thinking. The system takes into account the psychological faculties affecting ethical decisions, the philosophical orientations involved, and distinctions between the concepts of "right" and "good." The paper opens with…

Industry has believed for years that adopting the metric system would be an advantage to U. S. economy both at home and abroad. The author explains how the metric conversion program is being organized, and how educators can get information about it. (Editor)

This guide, which stresses four basic functions of library management--planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling--presents a collection of 53 management concepts and principles applicable for use in every library. The term management concept, as used in the context of this guide, means a workable idea, thought, or opinion--based on…

Performance standards and ethics for project management remain to be firmly established. Research to provide guidelines for externally applied standards has only just begun. The contract serves as an internal standard against which the project may be judged. The author's experience suggests the following items as part of a possible ethical code:…

These two speeches deal with management by objectives (MBO). The first explains the rationale for such a system based on systems theory, surveys and research projects, and research in the field of behavioral sciences. It is a system of organizational leadership that translates organizational goals into specific objectives for organization members…

In this paper, the author traces the phases in the historical development of the functions of the principalship in Canada -- from administration by imitation and innovation to the administrator as planner. The author emphasizes the planning function of the principalship and suggests that by delegating more responsibility to staffs and teachers,…

This is the report of a conference sponsored by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. The conference discussed the findings of the Centre's 2-year program which attempted to demonstrate how the resource management of universities may be improved through better decisionmaking in the realms of finance, information, human flows, the use…

Any community, regardless of size, generates its own individual system of law, and only when such a system of law is in fact substantially just and substantially effective is the community able to function. Until recently, the legal systems within institutions of higher education have missed this point because for generations the traditional power…

Tongue-in-cheek advice on how to survive the principalship. (Author/MLF)