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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

Program Characteristics Of Semesterized Secondary Vocational Agriculture/Agribusiness Programs Which Promote Student Involvement In Supervised Occupational Experience Programs And Ffa Leadership Activities, Lloyd C. Bell

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The purpose of this study was to identify program characteristics of semesterized secondary vocational agriculture/agribusiness programs which promote student involvement in supervised occupational experiences and FFA leadership activities. The design of this study utilized three data collection instruments. The first instrument was an SOEP/FFA involvement survey developed by the author. The second instrument was developed by the author and solicited SOEP and FFA program characteristics deemed necessary in a semesterized program by instructors of the cooperating schools. The third instrument, an SOEP/FFA program characteristic opinionnaire, was developed by the author as a result of the program characteristics submitted by participating …

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

Membership Directory Special Edition 1984

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

Membership List

Regional Cross References

Special Interest Cross Reference

Other POD Members July 1984

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

Administration Size And Organization Size: An Examination Of The Lag Structure, John B. Cullen, Douglas D. Baker

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Recent longitudinal studies of the relationship between organization and administrative staff size (Freeman & Hannan, 1975) often to replicate the findings of earlier cross-sectional research (Blau herr, 1971). As a result, many researchers (Kimberly, 1976b) have argued that further longitudinal research is necessary.

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

Theories Of Piaget, Who Died This Month, Inspire Growing Band Of U.S. Professors, Robert L. Jacobson

ADAPT Program: Essays

The death of Jean Piaget this month at the age of 84 came at a time when the Swiss psychologist's theories of cognitive development were inspiring a small but growing number of innovative instructional programs in American colleges and universities. Most were started within the past few years and have yet to produce much hard evidence of their effectiveness. But participating faculty members say they are excited about what has been happening in their classrooms.

"Piagetian-based instruction," they say, offers many potential advantages over traditional methods: It facilitates communication, improves students' reasoning ability and academic achievement, boosts their self-confidence and …

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

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

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

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 …

Toward A Definition Of Organizational Politics, Bronston T. Mayes, Robert W. Allen

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

Viewing organizations as political entities is not a recent phenomenon. March (7) suggested that organizations are political coalitions in which decisions are made and goals are set by bargaining processes. Other writers stressed the utility of taking a political perspective when studying organizations (1, 6, 9, 22). Anyone associated with almost any form of organization eventually becomes aware of activities that are described by employees as "political", but what is termed political by one observer may not be viewed as political by another. To understand the nature of political processes in organizations, some agreement as to what constitutes political behavior …

Us Army Foreign Science And Technology Center, Unit History, Fy 1963-Fy 77 (Unredacted), Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This document is a basic organizational history of the Foreign Science and Technology Center (FSTC). It describes how FSTC was built out of various Army technical intelligence organizations; traces its relocations eventually culminating in settling into a federal building in Charlottesville, VA; and traces its various reorganizations and changes in staffing.

Appendix A contains a detailed discussion of FSTC Table of Distribution and Allowances (TDAs) changes over the years. That analysis shows how administrative problems were handled and how the focus of the organization had changed over the years. It also contains organizational charts corresponding to new TDAs, and tables …

An Evaluation Of Transactional Analysis As A Strategy Of Organization Development, Gilbert Frank Nykodym Ii

Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Introduction

Organizational Development (OD) and Transactional Analysis embrace a humanistic philosophy of organizational life. Connor noted: "Commitment to traditional humanistic concerns of individual growth, development, dignity, worth, and meaning is expressed in all OD literature (1975, p. 349)." Transactional Analysis (TA) takes an identical position.

We are living in the Age of Aquarius. Knowledge is no longer coveted by the chosen few who call themselves experts. Anyone who can read can gain expertise. It is fitting and appropriate at this time in human history that a model for behavior and human interaction (TA) has come along that can be used …

Business In Nebraska #285, June 1968, Dorothy Switzer, E. L. Burgess

Business in Nebraska

The Growth of Corporate Farming (Dorothy Switzer)

The structure of agriculture, its organization and control, is changing. Although the changes now perceived are not sudden developments, they will determine the nature of tomorrow's agri-business. The focus of this article is on corporate farming, one of the institutional changes being observed in agriculture.

Business Summary (E. L. Burgess)

Both physical volume and dollar volume indexes of business in Nebraska indicate that the March, 1968 levels were below those of March, 1967. For the U.S., both the dollar volume and the physical volume increased from March, 1967. Construction activity dropped off considerably …

Business In Nebraska #289, October 1968, Edward B. Schmidt, E. L. Burgess, C. S. Miller, Dorothy Switzer, E. S. Wallace

Business in Nebraska

The Income Tax in Nebraska (Edward B. Schmidt)

As a basis for considering possible abandonment of the state income tax, Nebraskans ought to inform themselves as to the role it, along with the retail sales tax, is playing. Our State Tax Commissioner, in his 1967 Annual Report, has undertaken to supply this information. Unfortunately, too few people have access to this report; therefore, some of the facts taken from it are presented herein in somewhat condensed and modified form.

Business Summary (E. L. Burgess)

Nebraska's July, 1968, dollar volume of business was up 12.5% from July, 1967, accompanied by …

Staff And Client Participation: A New Approach To Correctional Research, J. Douglas Grant, Joan Grant

Nebraska Law Review

Research in corrections is no longer something done sporadically. Professional research staffs are now permanent parts of most major correctional organizations and correctional research has become routinized. A good deal of this change can be attributed to the demands of state legislators and other budget-controlling bodies for evidence of payoff in the programs they are asked to support. There are three crucial questions concerning this expansion: (1) Where is the manpower coming from? Who will do the innovating, data collecting, evaluating, and monitoring necessary for effective research? (2) Who will determine what program innovations should be studied? and (3) How …

Special Text, St 10-120-1, Quartermaster Intelligence: Organization And Procedures, December 1959, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is a textbook used at the Army Quartermaster School. In the 1950s, military schools related to one of the Army Technical Services were run by that service. Since the format and content of Army field manuals were often very similar to those of special texts, the same staffs often prepared both

The modern US Army vision of the technical intelligence developed during World War II. Shortly before World War II, Army Technical Services had been instructed to set up intelligence sections in the offices of their chiefs. The technical services were bureaus which supplied weapons, equipment, and services to …

History Of The Intelligence, Security, And Safety Office: Office Of The Chief Of Ordnance, 1 July 1951 - June 1953, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

This is a digital version of portions of four semiannual reports. The Intelligence, Security, and Safety Office had diverse responsibilities within the Office of the Chief of Ordnance within the Department of the Army. Those reports are in the National Archives, “Record Group 156: Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance…Histories of Staff and Operating offices and divisions of the Chief of Ordnance, 1946-1954, IS&S Office, “ Box C 8.

In the early 1990s, Robert Bolin copied the sections of those reports related to the Intelligence Branch within the Intelligence, Security, and Safety Office. This document is a …

Counter Intelligence Corps, History And Mission In World War Ii, Robert Bolin , Depositor

United States Army: Training Documents

This is an unnumbered special text used by the Counter Intelligence Corps School at Ft Hollibaird, MD, in 1951. It covers the history of the Counter Intelligence Command from 1917 to 1945 with a special emphasis on the World War II years.

The text is a mixture of facts about operations and musing about the role and functions of the Counter Intelligence Corps.

Handbook On Ussr Military Forces: Chapter I, National Defense System, 1 March 1946, War Department (Usa), Robert L. Bolin , Depositor

United States Department of Defense Military Intelligence

TM 30-340, Handbook on USSR Military Forces, was “published in installments to expedite dissemination to the field.”

TM 30-430, Chapter I, 1 March 1946, “National Defense System,” contains a brief overview of the organization, structure, and geographical distribution of the Soviet armed forces with maps and organizational diagrams.

This manual is listed in WorldCat under Accession Number: OCLC: 19989681

A Note on Scholarly Usage
Since revised editions of Army manuals are customarily issued with the same manual number and title as the previous editions, the minimal scholarly citation must contain the date of issue. The minimum unambiguous citation for this …

Army Service Forces, Organization Manual, M301

United States Army: Field Manuals

During World War II, the Army in the continental United States was organized into the Army Headquarters and three commands:

Army Ground Forces which was concerned with the organization and training of ground forces for use in the various theaters of war.

The Army Air Forces, which were concerned with the organization and training of air forces and with research, development, and production of aviation related equipment.

The Army Services Forces (ASF), which was concerned with administrative, personnel, supply, and fiscal activities as well as the Army Technical Forces:

The Office of the Quartermaster General
The Office of the Chief …