A study was conducted to gather information from department chairs serving in the 26 two-year colleges that are members of the North Texas Community College Consortium using the International Community College Chair Survey (ICCCS). The ICCCS is designed to gather insights into four aspects of the chairs' professional lives: personal characteristics, responsibilities challenges, and strategies. The study compared the demographic data and the respondents' perceptions of the challenges their units will face in the next 5 years to the original survey conducted in 1992. The regional sample included 616 first-line administrators, and a 30.5% response rate was achieved. The demographic distribution of the regional respondents shows significant shifts in gender, age, education, experience and release time but constancy in race and stability of the population. Similarities between the two samples exist regarding the challenges of maintaining program quality, providing technology, and managing financial issues. The regional sample expresses greater concern about the challenges of distance education, external accountability, and student matters.

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M.Ed. (Educational Leadership) / The purpose of this study was: A. To discuss the term slow learner and to identify certain problems experienced by the slow learner. B. To identify specific problems experienced by the parents of the slow learner. C. To design a parent guidance programme for the head of the guidance department to aid Afrikaans speaking parents of the slow learner to accept their child and to try and solve the problems that their child experiences. D. To evaluate the effectiveness of the parent guidance programme. In evaluating the effectiveness of the parent guidance programme, the specific aims of the study were: - To ascertain what kind of parenting style the parents were using. - To teach the parents the advantage of the democratic parenting style. - To ascertain how the selfimages of the parents have improved in attending the programme. - To design guidelines for the parents how to cope with problems existing in the relationship between parent and child such as: * how to cope with conflict, * how to communicate effectively, * how to motivate the slow learner to become a successful student, * how to improve the selfconcept of the slow learner, and * how to cope with discipline. The Head of the Guidance department has a very important role to play in the establishing of such a parent guidance programme. This can be accomplished by keeping track of the needs of the parents and to update all the information regarding the slow learner. The ultimate goal will still be to create a positive working relationship between parent and teacher, to accommodate the needs of the slow learner and to cooperate in making the slow learner a successful student and eventually a successful adult.

( in English) In this Diploma Thesis the activity of Extraordinary People's Court in Jihlava during the first phase of restitution period (1945-1947) is investigated via the means of a case study. Todate investigations of retribution courts have been focused on the analysis of retributive judgments. This thesis differs from the earlier ones namely in the angle of view on retribution court's activity. The research is concentrated on the administrative operation of the retribution court in Jihlava (i.e. on the activity of retribution court head and their deputies) and on the role of individual retribution senate heads. The decision making of retribution court is not looked at only as a result of court's operation, but individual court senates' operation is subject of analysis here. Particular criminal cases are taken into account only when there is an assumption that they help to uncover day-to-day working habits of judicial officers, or, potentially, they are related to the person of the head of senate, or the filed material in its content gets beyond standard retribution proceedings at Jihlava retribution court. The thesis has used mainly sources of official origin filed with the Regional Archive in Brno, the National Archive, and the Security Services Archive.