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Faculty Development Among Organized Faculties In U.S. Colleges And Universities, Roma Lynn Gay Adkins
Faculty Development Among Organized Faculties In U.S. Colleges And Universities, Roma Lynn Gay Adkins
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
Higher education has experienced limitations on resources, both human and material, through financial exigency and declining enrollments (28:1). Faculty mobility has declined, and the previously employed method of improving an institution’s faculty through the employment of new talent to stimulate growth and development is no longer possible. Thus, updating, revitalizing, and improving the quality of instructional and curricular endeavors was deemed as a problem for today’s colleges and universities (6:16). The ever tightening job market and leveling off of student enrollments have yielded reduced faculty mobility and resulted in faculty members entrenched in university positions. Simerly attributed continuously growing numbers …
The Importance And Performance Of Superintendents' Job Functions As Perceived By Board Members And Superintendents, Patricia Simms Harrison
The Importance And Performance Of Superintendents' Job Functions As Perceived By Board Members And Superintendents, Patricia Simms Harrison
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
The functions of the superintendency are crucial to the organization and administration of a public school system. Yet, despite the importance of this position, objective and systematic procedures and processes concerning the identification and evaluation of superintendents’ job functions are seldom employed. The result has been “wide-spread dissatisfaction with superintendents’ evaluation and performance appraisal programs by both superintendents and boards.” Casual, unspecified evaluations of superintendents lead to the development of misunderstandings between school boards and superintendents and interfere with “the efficient conversion of board policy into school system practice.”