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Principles of College and University Administration
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This is a reproduction editon from scan of the 1958 work.
Considering the long existence of universities, it is surprising that so little has been written about college and university administration. Students, dormitories, accounting procedures, curricula, and athletics have all received their share of published material. But a careful study of the internal operation of institutions of higher education has almost never been made.
Dr. Woodburne is an experienced educator and administrator, and he presents here a detailed analysis of academic leadership and planning, as they relate to areas of finance, public relations, personnel, curriculum, teaching, departmental administration, and research. The characteristics of effective leadership are defined, stressing the need for mutual respect and good faith between various levels, the creation and maintenance of smoothly functioning channels of communication which permit a free flow of ideas, and an understanding of the possible long-range effects of executive decisions.
The author states two essential conditions for a successful partnership between faculty and administration: problems which arise must be considered objectively and without personal prejudice, and the administration must provide for the free dissemination of information concerning interdepartmental activities and decisions. Although this contention will be subscribed to by most, it is violated as often as it is observed. Conflicts which frequently arise between teaching and management are explored in discussions of tenure, promotion, educational priorities, and the role of department heads.
The principal work of the college or university is performed by trained professionals, and its major product of an educated mind cannot be reduced to mechanical production measures. In fact,aside from typing and filing, the only routine mechanical operations of a university occur in the business office or in buildings and grounds activities. Everything else involves a teacher's concern for the validity of his subject matter, or value judgments on the part of administration. This volume will prove a useful and vital tool in the exercising of those judgments.
Lloyd S. Woodburne is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Faculty Personnel Policies in Higher Education.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work:
Title Principles of College and University Administration
Author Lloyd S. Woodburne
Publisher Stanford University Press 1958
ISBN080473366X, 9780804733663
Recent Occupational Trends in American Labor
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Designed as a supplement to bring up to date their much-consulted work Occupational Trends in the United States, the present small volume by the same two authors is a fact paced and significant study. It explores employment trends of the years 1930 through 1944 as revealed by the 1940 census and other statistical sources.
Presenting first and overall characterization of the labor force of 1940 and a contrast with the 1930 employment scene, the authors succinctly summarize the effect of a major depression on more than 200 occupational groups. They also undertake a valuable consideration of employment during the early war years.
The future prospects for workers and the possibilities of full employment are weighed and postwar occupational movements are predicted in one timely chapter.
Competent and compact, Anderson and Davidson's new work is not only a necessary handbook to tie in closely with their earlier publication, but a much-needed, practical reference study of employment during the nation's dramatic years of depression and war.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Recent occupational trends in American labor: a supplement...
Hobson Dewey Anderson, Percy Erwin Davidson
Stanford University Press, 1945
133 pages
