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The Second Epiphany: Program Design For African American Leadership Of Catholic Schools, Gerald M. Cattaro

Journal of Catholic Education

Using the biblical experience of Christ’s epiphany as a root metaphor, the author discusses the historical development of African American participation in Catholic schools with a view towards a program design for African American leadership in school administration. Through an analysis of various levels of culture, African American Catholics are shown to be well-suited for emerging leadership roles in Catholic schools and dioceses.

Social Analysis Of The New Testament And Hispanic Theology: A Case Study, Efrain Agosto

Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology

The author takes an autobiographical point of departure -- his background as a New York City born Puerto Rican -- to discuss the ways his experience as a church and community leader influenced the direction of his doctoral studies. Reflecting on his dissertation on “Paul’s Use of Greco-Roman Conventions of Commendation,” he unfolds the the complex interrelationship between the social realities of Greco-Roman antiquity that were the matrix of Paul’s correspondence with the Corinthian Christian community, and the social realities of late twentieth-century U.S. Hispanic American readers of the Corinthian correspondence. The article closes by considering the need for a …

Managers Are Appointed, Leaders Emerge: How New Scientific Paradigms Inform Organizationel Leadership, Lew Beccone

Theses and Graduate Projects

For most of the 20th century the mechanistic, linear world of Newtonian science has functioned both as metaphor for thinking about organizational dynamics and as the mental model around which organizations have developed. Recently, the postclassical sciences have yielded an alternate understanding of the world, one fundamentally different from that of the Newtonian model. This paper explores a world view emerging from complexity studies and quantum physics, contrasts it with the dominant image derived from classical physics, and draws implications for organizational leadership. The lens of postclassical science challenges our fundamental ontology and reframes our views of organizational life in …

Leadership Education Courses And Programs In Departments Of Agricultural Education, Susan Fritz, F. William Brown

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications

This national study of post-secondary departments of agricultural education examined leadership and human resource management/development course offerings, course characteristics, future department plans, backgrounds of faculty, and related outreach activities. The majority of the courses were offered for undergraduate credit and were predominately required courses for agricultural education department majors. Nearly half of the departments offering these courses characterized their courses as nontraditional. Departments not offering leadership courses cited a lack of resources, institutional impediments and resistance, and lack of student demand as reasons for not offering the courses. Nearly half of the faculty teaching leadership education courses had traditional agricultural …

Factors Affecting Leadership Styles Of Prison Wardens: A Case Study Of Public Adult Prisons Within Virginia, Nancy Elizabeth Santiago

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Management

This study attempts to identify the leadership styles of Virginia prison wardens within public adult prisons, and to determine which factors contribute to the development of their leadership styles. The two instruments used in this study to assess leadership style were the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI, which measures "transformational" leadership), and the Leader Behavior Analysis II Self (LBAII Self, which measures "transactional" leadership). Both instruments have been used in prior research with correctional personnel, and comparisons of this research study is made with previous dissertations utilizing the LPI and LBAII.

Also developed for this study was a set of questions …

[1998-03-19] Minutes Of A Regular Meeting Of The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University March 19, 1998., Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

The Bg News January 23, 1998, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 23, 1998. Volume 80-Issue 82.

The Bg News January 22, 1998, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. January 22, 1998. Volume 80-Issue 81.

Resources- Jul/Aug. 1998, Osp Staff

Resources, from the Office of Sponsored Programs

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of Participation In The Ad Hoc Computer-Supported Workgroup, Nancy A. Floyd

Theses and Dissertations

The increase of end-user computing, including the use of computer-mediated communication systems (CMCS), is one of the most significant changes to occur in business information systems in recent years. Researchers suggest that changes in technology lead to changes in the way individuals think about work and how they perform it. An important question is how the use of CMCS is changing work and work relationships. This study considers a portion of this question; it asks "What makes individuals willing to participate in a computer-supported workgroup (CSWG)."

This study considered the relationship between three variables (sex, anonymity, and token status) and …

Positioning A Local Church For A New Model Of Church Planting In A Postmodern Culture , Stephen Vincent Elliott

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.