Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1972. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

This study sought to identify components of the institutional transformation of Southwest Texas Junior College from its participation in the Rural Community College Initiative (RCCI) The RCCI was centered on increasing access to educational opportunities and regional economic development in four historically poor regions of the United States. It was felt that this two-pronged approach to increase access and economic development would ameliorate poverty and provide opportunity. The pilot colleges were chosen from Appalachia, Delta South, Northern Plains (Tribal colleges), and the Southwest. Southwest Texas Junior College in the southwest border region of Texas and Mexico was chosen in 1994 as one of nine pilot college participants in the Ford Foundation project. Documentation of the college's characteristics were conducted during the 1994 and 1995 preliminary visits by Stephen G. Katsinas at the request of the Ford Foundation to find suitable rural community colleges in historically distressed areas of the United States to be invited to participate in RCCI. Follow-up site visits were conducted by Christopher Thomas in 2002, 2004, and 2005. Data was collected during all site visits by open-ended questionnaires, interviews, content analysis of documents, and observation. Extended site visits and living in the college's residence halls increased the researcher's knowledge of the region, the college, its faculty, staff, and students. Results from the study indicated Southwest Texas Junior College has undergone substantial institutional transformation as a result of its participation in RCCI. The College increased access in all eleven counties to students in its state-assigned service delivery area through increased relationships with twenty-two area highs schools, the extensive expansion of curriculum and permanent facilities at its branch campuses in Eagle Pass, Del Rio, and Crystal City, increases in its adult basic education programs, increases in its technical training programs, and by increasing its workforce training programs. The college has also increased its regional economic development by assuming a leadership role in the region for economic development activities and by increasing its use of federal, state, and local grant opportunities. The Middle Rio Grande's recognition by the federal government as a Rural Enterprise Zone (the Futuro Proposal) and its participation in the Lumina Grant Project are further demonstrations of its success at increasing regional economic development. Addition documentation and research on this institution and this region are warranted and suggested as this area's population projections continue to show sharp increases.

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the ability of two-year college students and faculty in one area of activity and to gain a more adequate understanding of them. A dearth of taxonomic literature on plant populations at the local level prompted this study. It has been observed that amateur botanists have accomplished satisfactory and commendable work in plant taxonomy. Also, it has been observed that a high percentage of students in two year colleges commute considerable distances. These disparate observations led to a potential solution to the botanical dilemma.

The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the library as both a teaching and a service agency in the junior high schools.

The purpose of this study is to make an evaluation of Gainesville Junior High School to determine the extent to which it meets criteria for this type of school. The different phases of the school evaluated were: plant and equipment, library, course of study, techniques of teaching, and extra-curricular activities.

The purpose of this study was to determine what criteria were being used or for use in determining rank assignment of non-degree technical-vocational junior college instructors.

In the main there are three questions to be answered in this investigation: First, what are the motives that have controlled the growth and development of the junior colleges in Texas? Second, what are the leading events in this development? Third, what is the present state of development of the junior college movement in Texas? A survey of the existing junior college situation in Texas is presented in the first chapter, while a more detailed history of development is outlined in the later chapters.

The purpose of this paper is to discover any trend developing in youth participation in junior livestock shows in Utah and to identify the factors which affect youth participation. Junior livestock show records and 4-H enrollment figures from Cache and Box Elder Counties and the State of Utah, were studied to obtain necessary statistical information. A survey was constructed and issued to former and present 4-H members. Economic theory was employed in order to compare the survey data and participation statistics. The paper is divided into three major parts: similarities and differences between the Cache and Box Elder County Fair Junior Livestock Shows, age group comparisons, and other comparisons, in that order.

The purpose of this study was to explore the behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in junior high schools in Kaohsiung city and Kaohsiung counties and Pingtung counties. The questionnaires were completed by 126 principals and 252 teachers in public junior high schools. Statistical methods used for explanation and analysis of results were based on proportion or mean, standard deviation, descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way variance analysis and Scheffe¡¦ method. As a result, the conclusions were drawn from the research results: 1. There are significant differences between a principal and teachers for the character of curriculum leadership¡¦s stakeholder in junior high schools. 2. The real behavior of the principals¡¦ curriculum leadership is lower than the expected behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in junior high schools. 3. There are significant differences for the expected behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in the different background of junior high schools. 4. There are significant differences for the real behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in the different background of junior high schools. 5. There are significant differences for the expected behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in the different background of the examinee. 6. There are significant differences for the real behavior of the principal¡¦s curriculum leadership in the different background of the examinee. Keyword¡Gcurriculum leadership¡Bstakeholder¡Bexpected behavior of curriculum leadership¡Breal behavior of curriculum leadership

Abstract Owing to the rapid development of democratized politics, liberalized economics and pluralistic society, the operation of educational administration at school is facing a lot of challenge in the reformation period. The Restructure Of School Organization is one of the means of the educational reforms. To handle changed opportunities to create new ones, and to make the school administrative organization fill flexible mechanism is the missions and duties that the school administrative organization shoulder. The purpose of this research is to study the basic concept of the organization through the four links, ¡§ Business Organized Reform ¡¨, ¡§ Government Reform ¡¨, ¡§ The Restructure Of The School Administrative Organization.¡¨ The research also coordinate with a new related theory of the organization , educational prescripts, important plans of the educational reforms, and the analysis of related studies of the school administrative organization to explore the stratagem of the restructure of the junior high school administrative organization. And set up an organization to a new model to be able to effectively resolve the problems which the junior school administrative organization faces. The research takes the study way of Delphi Technique and invite 16 consultants such as the experts and the scholars in Kaohsiung, the educational administrators, the junior high school principles, the leaders or the chiefs of the departments, teachers, and parents of the students to implement questionary survey three times. Synthesize the results of the documents investigation and the survey in Delphi Technique. About the reform of the administrative organization in junior high school, the conclusions are as follows : ¢¹. The reform of the school administrative organization is the extension of the reform of the government organization. To adjust administrative organization and operative standard is on the basis of the policy of the allocation numbers in local government and the managing the sum of numbers in central government. ¢º. A school contains two systems, administration and teaching, which presents the structure of Loosely Coupled System. However, educators are not in favor of the policy which merges the school organization into the administration department and the teaching department. ¢». The emphasis of the school reform contains ¡§ School-Based Manage- ment ¡¨ and ¡§ Teaching Professional Sovereignty. ¡¨ In addition, the reform of organization have to go with ¡§ Operation System ¡¨ ,¡§ Job Allocation ¡¨, ¡§ Management Mechanism.¡¨ Thus, it can work. ¢¼. At present, teachers take two jobs, teaching and the duty of the administration, like the leader or the chief of the department at school. They have double identities of being teachers and the members of the administration. Besides supplying the teaching department with support, the school administration should shoulder the responsibility of being professional leader. ¢½. In order to achieve the goal of the organization, the administrative apartment needs to develop the force of the integration, and Full Matrix is the best policy that can develop the function of the integration. ¢¾. The hinge of the reforms of the school administrative organization lies in abolition, combination or job allocation among the groups of the departments. ¢¿. To reform organization structure has to simultaneously consider the privilege allocation of the school organization and the change of the administration policy. Promoting it needs to accept various opinions and search for mutual understanding. ¢À. While reforming organization, we have to consider the operation mechanism of educational reform that has been promoted universally, including nine-year coherence curriculum and the unity experiment of teaching, discipline, and guidance. According to the conclusion of this study, some suggestions are follows: ¢¹. Suggestions to the heads of education administration organizations 1. Central government and local government should promote actively the revision of the relevant laws, and give schools the right of organizations to come true the spirit of the organization reform. 2. Ministry Of Education should play a more active role to offer the resources of the expenditure and the men of talent, and ask schools to immerse the spirit of the organization reform in the unity experiment of teaching, discipline, and guidance project. 3. School organization reform includes not only the adjustment of the administrative organization but also the change of the administration leadership, power distribution, curriculum & teaching, and school efficiency. The government should give schools more power of the personal, budget, and curriculum on the decision to satisfy the conditions and demands of different sections. 4. Adjusting the duty scope of the school administration or culture and education administration instead we should adopt technicians according to the different affairs, such as the engineer in the computer system, and professional shopping staffs. ¢». Suggestion to the school 1. ¡§ Community School ¡¨ becomes a developing trend , uniting community resources has already become the main business of the school administration. Besides, it also puts emphasis on regulation administration organization, adjusting the roles of the parents, teachers and students, and counting in the opinions the parents, students and the members of the community. 2. While a school is in the process of its organization reform, it should break through the organization of the teaching, discipline, affairs, and guidance. It replaces traditional administrative levels and the individual operation system with the teamwork. 3. When school is going to compose groups, it should consider professional knowledge, individual will, characters, individual job ( like academic specialists, administration ), and so on. It should compose a common teamwork, and put emphasis on strengthening self-determinant teamwork. Whether the school use teamwork organization depends on the administration affairs. 4. Technology and information have great influence on the operation of the administrative organizations. We have to reduce the administrative affairs and the members of the organizations to make the school administrative organizations will work effectively. 5. Through the redesigning and simplified procedure of the organizations work, we will make the administration affairs specialized and professional. The administration affairs excluding the core of the affairs ( teaching ) adopt the contractual way.