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Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

POD/NCSPOD National Conference

Tenth National Conference for the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD Network) and First Joint Conference with National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD)

1985 POD/NCSPOD Conference Sessions

Conference Addenda

An Actively Learned Special Event!

Schedule Overview

Welcome, by Rusty Wadsworth and Bob Pierleoni

Some Highlights

Lake Lawn Lodge

Conference Schedule

Ua37/30/2 Wku Research Notecards - A Topics, Lowell Harrison

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

Notecards created by Lowell Harrison while researching his book Western Kentucky University. The cards transcribed below are for 170 topics beginning with A ranging from AAUP to Awards.

The Use Of Performance Data To Monitor And Support The Reorganization Of An Educational System, Ellen Spall Thompson

Masters Theses

The goal of this study was to determine the performance effects on staff and students following the reorganization of a special education facility. The organizational plan was based on the development of teaching teams where students were grouped together according to exit curricular goals. Four interventions were completed in order to assess the overall outcome of the reorganization project. At the student level, the rate of learning was monitored in order to determine whether the implementation of teams affected educational objective acquisition . At the team level, meeting agendas were surveyed to find out what effect they had on student …

Are We Teaching The Right Things? A Glance At The Present And Future, Robert L. Heath

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Concerned with curriculum planning in speech communication, this article examines how programs can prepare students for careers in public relations, corporate communication, personnel development, and training. It identifies communication theory, persuasion, interpersonal and organizational communication, message design, issue analysis, writing, and empirical research as important areas of preparation. The discussion also emphasizes instructional design, presentation skills, measurement, and organizational change for students pursuing training and development work. Attention is given to emerging communication technologies, including data retrieval systems, electronic mail, computer assisted writing, corporate information systems, and distance training. The article situates curriculum development within communication administration by urging departments, …

Ua11/1 On Campus, Wku Public Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

On Campus newsletter featuring articles about faculty, staff and events at Western Kentucky University. This issue includes articles:

• WKU Education Dean Does National Teacher Assessment Report – J.T. Sandefur
• Service Aimed for Students Apt to Have Study Woes – Automated Peer Tutoring Service
• Stay Tuned for the Winter Olympics
• Former Weatherman Coaches TV Forecasters – Willard Cockrill
• Small Businesses Get Micro-Seminar from WKU – Business Administration
• Chemistry Department Receives Funds for More Coal Research
• Air Force ROTC is Born Again on Campus
• Who Was Really Abe Lincoln’s Valentine?
• About You – Connie Foster, Juanita Hare, Virginia Mutchler, Aaron Hughey, Owen …

Pod Network News, January 31, 1984, Michele S. Fisher

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: POD Network News

1. Results of the Core Committee elections

2. Call for Sessions, 1984 Conference

3. POD Summer Institute

4. POD's Program and Reception at AAHE

5. POD Membersip List ... Membership Directory

6. Book of Readings ... Under New Editorship

Pod Asilomar Conference Program

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Schedule Overview

You're here. This is Asllomar. Welcome to the 1984 conference.

Conference Committee

Asilomar and The Neighborhood

Opening

Assessment

Things You Can Get Up Front

Health & Fitness & Getting Outdoors

Monarchs Only

Business First

Everyperson's Computer Resource Room

A Clean Well-Lighted Space To Read

Spontaneously Generated Meetings

Connections

Survival Notes

Saturday Evening-Classical & Jazz

Session Schedule

Ocean, Beach, Tidepool Walk

Runners Route

Walk with the Butterflies (Park/Forest Trek)

Conference Planner

Program Highlights

Preliminary Sessions List

Hidden Opportunities For Faculty Development And Curricular Change, Russell Lee, Michael Field

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Introduction

Development Benefits of Team-Teaching

Research and Curricular Development

Conclusions

References

The Development Of Faculty As Teachers: A Multi-Faceted Approach To Change, Alton O. Roberts, John H. Clarke, David Holmes

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Problem

Toward a Theory of Change

Figure 1: A Force Field Analysis of Influence on Faculty Self Improvement Efforts

The Vermont Program

Figure 2: Intended Impact of Programs on Forces for Change Driving Forces

A Scenario of Development

Conclusion

Figure 3: Interaction of one Professor with Development Options over Four Years

References

Theory Z And Administrative Management, Judy Cureton, Bob Cureton

Association for Communication Administration Bulletin

Focused on communication departments in higher education, this article considers Theory Z as a framework for administrative management during periods of limited resources. It describes Theory Z as an approach grounded in participatory decision making, egalitarian relationships, delegation, shared philosophy, and attention to human resources. The discussion links these principles to communication administration by emphasizing consensus, quality circles, departmental self study, consumer definitions of program quality, and long range planning. It also addresses hiring, evaluation, rewards, recognition, and the influence of individual interests on departmental objectives. The article closes by discussing trust, subtlety, and intimacy as interpersonal foundations for management, …

The Relationship Of Preferred Work Environment And Job Satisfaction Of Community College Administrators, Susan Dunn Duford

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of job satisfaction and preferred work environment of community college administrators. Administrators from four southeast Lower Michigan community colleges were the population (N = 50). The administrators in expanding areas (N = 29) were compared with those in contrasting areas (N = 21). Members of each group completed a demographic questionnaire developed by the researcher as well as the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (Weiss et al., 1967) and the Work Environment Preference Schedule (Gordon, 1973). Survey instruments were mailed to each administrator and non-respondents were telephoned to determine reasons for noncompletion. …

The Quality Of Public Education In Boston: An Assessment And Some Recommendations, Karen Seashore Louis

Center for Survey Research Publications

Motivation, self-esteem, achievement and the development of tolerance and acceptance of others -- these are the goals that most, like Crain, et al., have come to accept as legitimate objectives of public schooling. Yet, there is substantial opinion that the public schools of Boston have been unable to achieve standards in these areas that are acceptable to the public, the students who occupy the schools, and the professionals who run them. For example, a recent survey of Boston residents' attitudes toward the schools indicates that approximately 3/4 of all respondents -- irrespective of race, or whether there were any school …

Information On Sessions

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Call for Sessions, by Bette LaSere Erickson

Information Sheet on POD Conference Track on Transitions from Academe to Business, by Lance C. Buhl

Memorandum, by Joanne Kurfiss

Improving Academic Departments, Sher Riechmann Hruska

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Individual VS. Departmental Development Models

Sample Models

Conditions for Success

Staff Skills

Results

Summary

References

Intervention: Moving University Units Toward Organizational Effectiveness, David B. Whitcomb, Susanne W. Whitcomb

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

Background

Figure A The OD Cube: A scheme for Classifying OD Interventions

Theoretical Underpinnings

Application

Sample Case

Problem/Situation/Setting

The Intervention

Feedback Session

The Results

Follow-Up Evaluation

Analysis

Gibb's Checklist

Additional Outcomes

Discussion of Other Interventions

Summary

References

1982 December 6 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

A Follow-Up Study To Determine Selected Characteristics And Perceptions Regarding The Academic Preparation Of Master Degree Graduates Who Majored In School Administration: Central Washington University 1976-1981, Richard P. Lynch

All Graduate Projects

The purposes of this study were (1) to determine selected demographic characteristics of master degree graduates, who majored in school administration, and who graduated from the Graduate Division of Education since the 1976 Summer quarter through the 1981 Summer quarter; (2) to ascertain the extent to which these graduates perceived the courses of instruction in their academic preparationas being relevant to subsequent educational administration functions; and (3) to determine additional courses of instruction, not in the present curriculum, that these selected graduates perceived would be professionally relevant to current educational administrative functions.

A Mathematician's Journey: From Applying The Pure To Purifying The Applied, Ronald A. Smith

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

I Searched for the Theory

Some Potholes and Detours

Is Teaching a Science?

Experience: A Better Teacher

I Needed Skills Too

Looking at My Learning

My New Perspective

A Really Good Problem

A Lovable Theory at Last

Does the Model Fit the Facts?

My Research and Practice Married

References

On Doing Intellectual Work: Grasping The Power Of The Gestalt, Rita Weathersby

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

A Transformative Gestalt

What Led Me to These Questions

Research as Perspective Transformation

Gathering and Analyzing Data

Relevance and Cooperation

Standards of Scholarship

Influencing Other Researchers and Practitioners

Protecting Time for Intellectual Work

References

Educational Needs Of Certain Secondary Schools In Bendel State, Nigeria, As Perceived By Principals And Teachers, Ose Atoresiri Eferakeya

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

None

Podcan Final Program: 1982 Annual Conference

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

1982 Annual POD Conference Planning Committee

Welcome to 1982 Conference Professional and Organizational Development Network

General Information

Conference Activities

Planning Sheet

Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Minutes of WKU Board of Regents meeting regarding personnel changes and salaries, organizational changes, see exhibits, College of Applied Arts & Health, operating budget and resolution in honor of Steven Fuller.

A Model Program For The Development Of Humanistic Administrative Techniques In A California Community College, Elaine Francisco-Davis

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.

Selected Personality Constructs As Correlates Of Personnel Appointment, Appraisal, And Mobility In Seventh-Day Adventist Schools, Merle A. Greenway

Dissertations

Problem. Despite tentative postulations and explorations of the person/job interaction, the specific relationships between personality and occupational behavior are not clearly understood. In particular, the relationships between human temperament and various aspects of personnel administration in an educational setting are generally unknown. The purpose of this study was to profile the temperament traits of professional educators in the Seventh-day Adventist school system, grouped on the basis of occupationally relevant selection variables; and to investigate the role of personality as it relates to personnel appointment, appraisal, and mobility.

Method. A demographic questionnaire and the Temperament Inventory were administered to 486 teachers, …

Shorelines - Vol. 02, No. 09 - May 27, 1980, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1979-1981, Shorelines

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Spring 1980

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

The Scientific Basis of the Art of Teaching by N. L. Gage, reviewed by Charles A. Goldsmid

Toward a Methodology of Naturalistic Inquiry in Educational Evaluation by Egon Guba, reviewed by Lance C. Buhl

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 55, No. 37, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue includes articles:

• Carpenter, Steve. 77 Tires Punctured in Parking Lots
• Mason, Cecelia. Campus Restricts the Handicapped
• McCord, Tom. Reaction Has Varied to Garp Cancellation
• Galloway, Amy. Yearbook’s Future Rests on Budget Increase
• Blacks Deserve Voice in School
• Gibbons, Roland. Editorial Cartoon – Tire Vandalism
• Conway, James. FM Formats Criticized
• Pawley, Keenan. Disgusted with Fans
• Rackley, Jane. Include Women in Draft
• Riley, Vance. Public Safety Criticized
• Thompson, Jim. Survey Questioned
• Carver, Tim. Radio Exists for Profit
• Winnecke, Joycelyn. John Y. Brown’s Education Plans Still a Mystery
• Fath, Tim. …

Programs And Practitioners: We Do What We Are, Stephen R. Phillips

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Teaching has sometimes been described as "a function of personality." Although clearly an oversimplification of a complex and difficult activity, the concept nevertheless has considerable merit; what we as teachers can do or are willing to try in the classroom and in our relationships with our colleagues, our students, and our institutions is in many ways determined by what we are as people. In a similar way, what we as individuals involved in faculty development can or are willing to do with or for faculty, administrators and students is as much a function of our personalities as of the skills …

The Future Of Faculty Development, David O. Justice

POD Quarterly: The Journal of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Reading the future is a risky business for the most thoughtful and prescient minds. I was therefore surprised to be asked to address the future of faculty development in view of the fact that I already have a record of predictions. I predicted, for example, 'Richard Nixon will never resign'; 'The Cardinals will stick with an Italian-Pope' and 'there will be a cabinet level Department of Education in 1978'.

With this record behind me, I will nonetheless tum my talents to faculty development and present my thoughts about its future. I should point out that I use the term faculty …

Development And Use Of A Low Inference Observation Technique For Diagnosis, Placement And Evaluation Of Teachers In An Individualized Staff Development Program, Teddy Allen Mcdavid

Dissertations (Pre-2016)

None