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Factors Contributing To Successful Transitions Into The Role Of A New Superintendency In Texas: A Mixed Methods Triangulation Convergence Inquiry, Nancy Jones

Administrative Issues Journal

The study used a mixed methods research design, employing the triangulation convergence model, to investigate the possible factors contributing to successful transitions into the role of a new superintendency. Participating superintendents indicated that the training and education they received had adequately prepared them for the role of a new superintendent. Also, participants indicated that school board relations were important during the entry period and that their interaction with the board played an important part in the entry plan. Analysis of qualitative data resulted in three themes, namely, community, learning, and goals and expectations. In accordance with the convergence model, the …

Testing The Efficacy Of Self-Affirmation In Improving Student Performance In A Business Law Course, Lynn M. Murray, Christine E. Fogliasso

Administrative Issues Journal

The authors explore the effects of a self-affirmation exercise on upper level college students in a business law class. Students from three business law sections were randomly assigned into one of two groups: one group was to write about a personally important value before exams and the other group was to write about a value not important to them but important to others. A third group emerged as some students chose to ignore the assignment. Contrary to expectations, students writing about others’ values performed better on most exams than did those who did not complete the exercise. It may be …

Marketing Internships: The Role Of Introspection In Students’ Satisfaction Reports, Flor Ornelas, Fernando Jiménez

Administrative Issues Journal

Despite the learning advantages of internship opportunities, many former interns bitterly complain about the dull tasks they had to perform during the internship. We argue that students’ satisfaction ratings with an internship are influenced by the current descriptive approach of final reports. When students list the tasks that they performed (i.e., what did you do?), they only engage in concrete thinking, missing the big picture. We contend that when an introspection approach is used (i.e., why did you do it?), students engage in abstract thinking, realizing the implications of the tasks they performed and hence, rating the internship experience more …

Complexity, Knowledge And Structure: A Systemic Understanding Of Organizational Learning, Justin D. Walton

Administrative Issues Journal

Organizations are among the most socially complex institutions within modern culture. As corporations face the challenges of technological change and globalization, it becomes essential that they find new ways and forms of fostering knowledge sharing and creativity. Challenging the age-old belief that employees should “dominated and directed,” complexity theory challenges the classic machine metaphor of organizational structure with a view that conceptualizes them as nonlinear systems that fluctuate between conditions of stability and chaos. This model offers new and exciting opportunities for exploring the dynamics of organizational learning. Toward this end, this paper examines the systemic features of organizations with …

Novice Principals Need Peer Mentoring, Rosalinda Hernandez, Velma Menchaca

Administrative Issues Journal

In this era of accountability, principals are now responsible for student achievement on high-stakes state-mandated assessments and the No Child Left Behind Act. The novice principals who enter the profession today face a multitude of issues as they learn on the job. Skills necessary to lead highly complex schools are not learned in traditional principal preparation programs, therefore, it becomes essential to support and assist novice principals at the beginning of the principalship career with a peer mentor, a more experienced school leader. Peer mentoring allows the principals to be socialized into the profession they are about to embark on …

An Interprofessional Education Opportunity For Future Health Care Leaders, Denise Neill, Jere Hammer

Administrative Issues Journal

Increasing emphasis on interprofessional collaborative practice to improve health care delivery quality and safety led nursing faculty in a small liberal arts university to explore a unique educational initiative with School of Business Administration faculty. While developing a master of science in nursing administration option, the opportunity to create a collaborative undergraduate health care administration concentration with the School of Business Administration developed. Common competencies and potential shared courses were identified. After launching the initiative, faculty from both schools collaborated to evaluate outcomes. Student response has been overwhelmingly positive. The ability to examine health care issues from both business and …

Reengineering Hospital Systems, Uche Nwabueze

Administrative Issues Journal

The paper suggests that effective systems implementation of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is only possible in hospital organizations capable of building open, honest, and lasting relationship with employees, suppliers, customers, and business partners. The paper suggests that the use of Inter-relationship management is the most effective approach for reengineering. It is noted that interrelationship management is not customer relationship management (CRM), nor is it relationship marketing (RM); it is about managerial governance involving three inter-related parts: process planning, process improvement, and process redesign.

School Leadership’S Trials And Trails: A Hundred Leadership Paths Diverged, Intertwined And Bifurcated, Sometimes Coming Out At The Same Place, Charles R. Waggoner

Administrative Issues Journal

School Leadership comes in many manifestatins and nomenclatures. Though the course of a day, a school year, or a lifetime an individual’s leadership style will emerge in a variety of diasporic ways that will encompass the unique individual who has the title of school administrator. The literature is replete with leadership terms and stories. All of the leadership paths and stores are instructive to those who pursue a lifetime of learning and leading in this business we call “school administratin.”

Mentoring Post-Secondary Tenure-Track Faculty: A Theory-Building Case Study And Implications For Institutional Policy, Dannielle Joy Davis, Patricia Boyer, Isela Russell

Administrative Issues Journal

The featured research uses theory-building case study to understand the experiences of junior faculty in a mentoring program. Findings suggest the importance of professional interaction for faculty members’ integration into their campus communities. An explanatory model illustrates the findings and supplements discussion of the implications for administrators in terms of retention of new faculty members in postsecondary settings.

A Comparison Of Urban, Suburban, And Rural Principal Leadership Skills By Campus Student Achievement Level, Susan Erwin, Pam Winn, John Erwin

Administrative Issues Journal

Because of the importance of developing highly skilled school leaders, statewide assessments of 784 Texas public school administrators were compared to determine how leadership skills varied by type of campus (urban, suburban and rural) and by campus student achievement ratings. Important findings indicate differences exist by campus type and by campus student academic achievement as measured by state accountability ratings. In particular, leadership skills of urban, suburban, and rural principals at campuses with the state’s highest student academic achievement ratings differ from skills of principal at schools with lower student academic achievement ratings.

Creating Opportunities With Mentoring Relationships, Carrie J. Boden Mcgill

Administrative Issues Journal

Navigating the cultural environment of academia can be a difficult task, particularly for first-generation college students and those who belong to groups typically marginalized in doctoral programs. This study examines two cases of first-generation, African American female graduate students to determine which traits preclude success in doctoral programs and how mentoring relationships influence completion. The women in this study come from similar backgrounds, but they adopted very different strategies for coping with adversity. It is possible that the presence or absence of positive mentoring relationships in their lives influenced the strategies that the women chose. This article seeks to strengthen …

Workload And The Changing Health Care Environment, Denisse Neill

Administrative Issues Journal

Changes in the health care environment have impacted nursing workload, quality of care, and patient safety. Nurses perceive that the quality of their work has diminished. Traditional nursing workload measures do not guarantee efficiency and do not adequately capture the complexity of nursing workload. Studies have identified tasks associated with nursing work but not the perception of the nurse about the mental work required to meet the demands. Human factors research examines cognitive and perceptual abilities needed to perform tasks in a reasonable time without error. Researchers using a human factors framework have focused on mental processing to understand why …

Revisiting The Arts In The No Child Left Behind Era, Patricia Simons

Administrative Issues Journal

Schools are responding differently to the mandates of NCLB. The purpose of this comparative case study is to investigate how two Title I elementary schools, one a member of a school reform network focused on the arts and one not a member of the network, are able to exceed AYP targets in reading and mathematics and not compromise teaching and learning in other core subjects. Included in the study is an examination of thinking skills embedded in visual arts instruction and transfer of learning to other content areas. Findings reveal that schools that are committed to the arts that are …

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 87, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

• Wade, Katherine. WKU’s Full-time Dietician Quits; Job Already Filled – Melanie Powell
• Wood, Shane. Kentucky Barbecue – Wes Berry
• Harrison, Taylor. Medical Center to Host 10K on WKU Campus
• Kriz, Lindsay. WKU Grad Opens Dream Clothing Store – Karrie Cash
• Blanford, Sidney. F is for Forensics
• Bratcher, Nick. Resident Assistant’s Retract Threatened Bathroom Ban – Pearce-Ford Tower
• Koch, Cameron. Revolution’s Battle of the Bands Back for Second Year
• Duvall, Tessa. WKU Names Alumnus, Young Alumnus of the Year – Brent Ditto, Linda Miller
• Vogt, Darren. Editorial Cartoon re: Blood …

Interview With Dr. Paul Sallarulo - Alumnus And Trustee, Paul Sallarulo

Oral Histories of Nova Southeastern University

The Oral School, Coral Springs, NSU, nontraditional, Nextera Medical, North Broward Hospital District, Dr. Bob Preziosi, educational leadership, Lonnie Neiderman, University School, Entrepreneur of the Year, George Hanbury, alumni, Jeb Bush, library, Ray Ferrero, Special Olympics, Mr. Taft, university center, Stephen Feldman, undergraduate, business school, China, MBA,international business, NSU’s history, football

Activity & Service Recommendation Committee 10/14/2011, Adam Aldridge

Legislative Branch Publications

Student Government Activity and Service Recommendation Committee meeting agenda for 10/14/2011

Legal Opinion S52-006 Certification Of Mid-Term Elections, Brian Goff, University Of South Florida. Student Government Office Of The Attorney General

Executive Branch Publications

USF Attorney General opinion on whether the Midterm Election must be certified by the end of the business week or if it could wait until the following week. Attorney General ruled that the Midterm Election must be certified the Friday following the close of elections by 5:00 pm.

October Agenda, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting agenda.

Meeting Minutes, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Meeting minutes.

Nursing Workload And The Changing Health Care Environment: A Review Of The Literature, Denise Neill

Administrative Issues Journal

Changes in the health care environment have impacted nursing workload, quality of care, and patient safety. Traditional nursing workload measures do not guarantee efficiency, nor do they adequately capture the complexity of nursing workload. Review of the literature indicates nurses perceive the quality of their work has diminished. Research has looked at tasks associated with nursing work, but not the nurse’s perception of workload demands. Human factors research principles examine cognitive and perceptual abilities needed to meet the workload demands. A human factors framework focuses on mental demands and adds an understanding of why some demands are handled easily while …

Graduate Faculty Committee, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Membership of Graduate Committee.

Judiciary And Ethics Committee Meeting Minutes 10/13/2011, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Student Government Senate Committee on Judiciary and Ethics meeting minutes for 10/13/2011

Statutes Of Limitations Ad-Hoc Committee Meeting Agenda 10/13/2011, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Student Government Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on Statutes of Limitations meeting agenda for 10/13/2011

Judiciary And Ethics Committee Meeting Agenda 10/13/2011, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Student Government Senate Committee on Judiciary and Ethics meeting agenda for 10/13/2011

Uni Diversity Assessments: Organizational Diversity Assessment; Student Climate Assessment [2011], Kristin Moser

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

An analysis of the organizational diversity survey and the student climate assessment survey results on diversity from 2011.

2011 October 12 - Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes, Undergraduate Curriculum Council, East Tennessee State University

Undergraduate Curriculum Council Minutes

No abstract provided.

Senate Meeting, October 12, 2011, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

Senate Bill (A) 52-025 Enhaced Rec Center Services And Student Employment Act, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Appropriation of Activity and Service Funds for the Enhanced Rec Center Services and Student Employment Act Student Organization.

Senate Bill (A) 52-027 Senate Secretary Position, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Appropriation of Activity and Service Funds for the another Secretary for the Senate.

Senate Bill (A) 52-030 Emerging Green Builders At Usf, University Of South Florida. Student Government Senate

Legislative Branch Publications

Appropriation of Activity and Service Funds for the Emerging Green Builders at USF Student Organization.