| UCEA Goals & Activities |
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| UCEA engages in a variety of
activities and produces a number of publications
and instructional materials. All these activities
and products proceed from a basic set of goals
sufficiently stable to give the organization identity,
yet flexible enough to respond to changing conditions
in educational administration.
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| Goals |
Briefly stated, UCEA goals are:
- To advance understanding in all areas relating
to education administration and to enhance the
research capability of participating institutions,
- To develop better methods of instruction,
new materials, and other approaches to help
bring about more effective pre-service and staff
development programs for all professionals in
educational administration, and
- To create more effective pathways and networks
for exchanging new understandings and better
methods among persons working to advance educational
administration.
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| Program Activities |
A representative sample of the many types of activities
sponsored by UCEA follows:
- Inter-institutional research projects on
such subjects as principalship effectiveness,
education policy, and managing resources,
- Articulation of new directions for research
and training, for example, in formulating research
perspectives, in preparing leaders to anticipate
the future, and in establishing criteria for
administrator licensure and certification,
- Development and testing of training programs
for administrators that make effective use of
resources in other disciplines-for example,
strengthening the humanities in administrator
preparation programs,
- Professional renewal opportunities for member
institution, for example, seminars and workshops
on subjects such as methods of research, preparing
leaders for the future, and coping with the
challenges of urban education,
- The UCEA
Convention, an annual professional meeting
open to all UCEA faculty and guests from non-UCEA
institutions,
- UCEA
Program Centers, a series of topical clearing
houses hosted by UCEA member universities,
Involvement of graduate students from member
institutions in professional seminars, institutes,
and conferences and in research and development
projects, and
- Creation of new organizations - the Inter-American
Society for Educational Administration, The
Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration,
The National Policy Board for Education Administration.
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| Publications |
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In addition, UCEA regularly aids in the production
and distribution of a wide range of books, monographs,
and special reports which are available through
our catalog.
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| Instructional Materials |
UCEA is especially concerned with the need to
develop instructional materials that will improve
administrator preparation problem. A number of games
and simulations have been developed for this purpose,
including the Monroe City urban simulation, developed
and demonstrated in various parts of the U.S. and
Canada by more than 180 professors from 40 universities.
The most recent UCEA training tool is the Adams
Simulation, which contains five simulations of administrative
positions in a suburban school district. A new approach
to simulation is taken by a current project, IESLP
(The Information Environment for School Leader Preparation).
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| Awards |
UCEA sponsors several recognitions each year,
including:
- The
Master Professor Award, given to an individual
faculty member whose record is so distinguished
that UCEA must recognize this individual in
a significant and timely manner.
- The
Jay D. Scribner Mentoring Award, given to
a educational leadership faculty who have made
substantive contribution to the field by mentoring
the next generation of students into roles as
university research professors, while also recognizing
the important role(s) mentors play in supporting
and advising junior faculty.
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| UCEA
Policy Manual |
