An Investigation of Affirmative Action Policies and Practices of Recruiting, Hiring, Mentoring and Retention of African American Teachers and Administrators
The purpose of this study was to investigate the affirmative action policies and practices of recruiting, hiring, mentoring and retention of African American teachers and administrators throughout the State of Illinois. Since public elementary and secondary school systems provide numerous and varied jobs in virtually every community in the nation, it is assumed that if a quality education is to be attained, students must be exposed to the variety of cultural perspectives that represent the nation at large (American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education,
On Becoming a Superintendent: Contest or Sponsored Mobility?.
The highest professional, salaried position one may seek in the public school sector is that of superintendent. Traditionally, attainment of this position has depended to an appreciable extent on the help and information an aspirant received from professional contacts-the so-called "old boy network." A major aspect of this study was to determine the role of such professional contacts as consultants, mentors, and advisors in the selection and placement of Black public school superintendents. A school board has several issues to consider when it has a superintendency to fill. During the selection process, the board may use the professional advice and services of persons outside the district. This might include the hiring of a consultant and inviting nominations or accepting unsolicited nominations from knowledgeable persons. Of the many steps followed in the selection process, four are relevant to this study: hiring an outside consultant, inviting nominations, accepting nominations, and assuring equal employment opportunity. The persons from whom nominations are invited or accepted are referred to interchangeably as advisors, sponsors, or consultants. By definition, an "advisor" is anyone who counsels or gives recommendations. The term "consultant," however, connotes a formal contract with a person for professional advice and services. A consultant, by definition, is also an advisor. The term "sponsor" refers to anyone who promotes another person or otherwise acts on his behalf. Sponsors are also referred to as "encouragers." An advisor or consultant may act as a sponsor by promoting certain candidates. Persons who are invited to make nominations,
The chromosomes of Chrysanthemum,
NEW varieties of the garden chrysanthemum arise primarily from seed. They are propagated vegetatively and many give rise to bud sports in sequence and in parallel to give whole families of varieties. The original sports would naturally be chimras and it is not surprising therefore that they often revert to the previous type. Whereas some varieties sport continually from the time of their origin, others remain stable for many years. Those considered in this account do, mostly, sport freely. Since varieties may remain stable for a considerable number of years and then suddenly sport it is probable that all varieties possess the ability to sport. The origin of bud sports is unpredictable. Some confusion in naming has arisen as the same or similar sports have occurred and been propagated in different places under different names. Consequently there are, for example, several forms similar to, but not identical with, the original Favourite Supreme raised by Messrs A. G. Vinten. It might well be that each individual variety would be better termed a sub-family to include all its minor variants. The different Chrysanthemum sports are described in scattered numbers of the R.H.S. Journal—more particularly, for the Favourite family, in Vol. 63, 1938, pp. 139-141. The object of this study is to discover the cause of sporting.