The aim has been to include only those publications from the general area of the administration of higher education which deal specifically, in whole or in part, with the responsibility of the president for special phases of administration. The extensive literature dealing with academic freedom in specific institutions (more than 400 titles since 1950 alone) has not been included, although many if not most of the publications in this controversial field usually have involved the president.

Organization of Material

The body of the bibliography is divided into six major fields, with 14 subdivisions of two of them, as shown in the "Contents." These major fields are as follows:

Thus it will be seen that information on personal factors, including age, degrees, salary, tenure, and retirement, make up almost one-quarter of the total number. Information on duties and responsibilities of the president (in general and to boards of control, business officers, librarians, faculty, students, alumni, and the general public) comprise almost half of the total number. No systematic effort was made to include in the final section all available biographical material that has been published in the 20th century. This section could have been greatly extended.

Each publication is listed only once in the bibliography—under that one of the six major topics or their subdivisions judged to be most appropriate. Numerous cross references, totaling more than 500, are indicated under most of the topics, when an entry covers two or more fields. Entries are arranged alphabetically in each section under the name of the author or editor. When two or more publications are credited to the same author, the arrangement is chronological. The index will enable the user to find all publications by any one author even though they have been placed in different sections.

Annotations

The most important feature of the bibliography, in the judgment of the compilers, and that which required the greatest amount of time and professional judgment, is the annotations which accompany almost all of the entries. A title alone often gives little or no information concerning the nature and value of the contents. Whenever possible a brief quotation has been used when it was felt that it would best present succinctly the spirit and content of the original contribution. Such quotations will be found for a majority of the entries. A few entries, less than a half dozen in all, which were not available for examination, have been included on the basis of the title only. For many of the books, references are given to signed reviews, but no systematic effort has been made to make this feature complete.

Authorship

A feature somewhat rare in bibliographies has been the systematic effort to give supplementary information concerning the author, particularly to indicate the institutional or other connection of the author of each article or book. Often it is quite significant to know not only what is said, but who said it. A writer's official position often adds significance to the information reported or the judgments expressed by him. Such information is particularly important regarding authors who are or have been college or university presidents—with whatever of professional knowledge and experience, or of possible professional bias, may be indicated by this fact.

Usually this information, when given, refers to the author's position at the time of publication of his contribution, as shown in connection with the book or article itself, but often additional information has been supplied, particularly when it involves earlier or later occupation of the presidency on the part of the author. More than 46 percent of the entries under personal authorship were written by men who are or have been presidents of institutions of higher education in the United States.

In a bibliography covering publications of more than a half century, birth years, and death years of those no longer living, have some interest and significance. It has been possible to secure birth years for the authors of more than 80 percent of the publications of personal authorship, and death years for almost a third of them. Others are known to have died, but dates of death could not have been easily found.

Only 4 percent of the authors are women, and none of these were college presidents. Not many women are presidents of colleges, although one study made 30 years ago of 600 liberal arts colleges found 50 women presidents. (See No. 59.) None of these, however, appear to have written anything regarding the office which they held.

Dates of Publication

The dates of publication of the 695 entries in the bibliography may be summarized as follows:

Thus it appears that more than half of the publications listed have appeared in the past 20 years, almost a third of them during the past decade. No publications prior to 1900 have been included. This is a 20th century bibliography. It is far from complete, however, for the earlier years, only the more significant contributions being included before 1930. Thus one bibliography on the presidency (No. 13) lists 149 publications which appeared between 1900 and 1917. Only about a quarter of these are included in the present bibliography.

Index

A comprehensive index includes the names of all individuals, institutions, organizations, and periodicals, not only those given in the citations but also in the annotations. It also includes many topics in greater detail than given in the topical organization of the volume.

Periodicals Cited

FOLLOWING is a list of the periodicals cited in this bibliography, with abbreviations used for them, and place of publication.

AAUP Bull. American Association of University Professors Bulletin, Washington, D.C.

AAUW Jour. American Association of University Women Journal, Washington, D.C.

Amer. Asso. Coll. Reg. Jour. American Association of Collegiate Registrars Journal, Allentown, Pa. (College and University, after July 1947.)

Amer. Mercury. American Mercury, New York, N.Y.

Amer. Quart. American Quarterly, Philadelphia, Pa.

Amer. Scholar. American Scholar, Washington, D.C.

America. America, New York, N.Y.

Asso. Amer. Coll. Bull. Association of American Colleges Bulletin, Washington, D.C. (Liberal Education after 1958.)

Atlantic. Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Mass.

Boston Transcript. Boston Transcript, Boston, Mass.

Bull. Texas Tech. Coll. Bulletin of the Texas Technological College, Lubbock, Tex.

Cath. Educ. Review. Catholic Educational Review, Washington, D.C.

Cath. Sch. Jour. Catholic School Journal, Milwaukee, Wis.

Cath. World. Catholic World, New York, N.Y.

Century. Century Magazine, New York, N.Y.

Christ. Cent. Christian Century, Chicago, Ill.

Christ. Educ. Christian Education, New York, N.Y. (Christian Scholar with Vol. 36, 1953.)

Christ. Educ. Mag. Christian Education Magazine, Nashville, Tenn.

Christ. Scholar. Christian Scholar, New York, N.Y. (Christian Education before Vol. 36, 1953.)

Coll. & Res. Lib. College and Research Libraries, Chicago, Ill.

Coll. & Univ. College and University, Allentown, Pa. (American Association

of Collegiate Registrars Bulletin before October 1947.)

Coll. & Univ. Bus. College and University Business, Chicago, Ill.

Coll. Pub. Rel. Quart. College Public Relations Quarterly, Washington, D.C. Commonweal. Commonweal, New York, N.Y.

Cornell Alumni News. Cornell Alumni News, Ithaca, N.Y.

Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.

Current Lit. Current Literature, Columbus, Ohio.

Current Opinion. Current Opinion, New York, N.Y.

Detroit News. Detroit News, Detroit, Mich.

Dial. The Dial, New York, N.Y.

Diss. Abstracts. Dissertation Abstracts, Ann Arbor, Mich.

stracts before Vol. 12, 1952.)

Educ. Education, Boston, Mass.

(Microfilm Ab

Educ. Adm. & Sup. Educational Administration and Supervision, Baltimore, Md. Educ. Digest. Education Digest, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Educ. Forum.

Educ. Outlook.

Educational Forum, Tiffin, Ohio.

Educational Outlook, Philadelphia, Pa.

Educ. Record. Educational Record, Washington, D.C.

Educ. Review.

Educational Review, New York, N.Y.

Forum. The Forum, New York, N.Y.

Golden Book. Golden Book, New York, N.Y.

Harpers. Harper's Magazine, New York, N.Y.

Harpers Bazaar. Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.

Harpers Weekly. Harper's Weekly, New York, N.Y.

Harvard Educ. Review. Harvard Educational Review, Cambridge, Mass.

Higher Educ. Higher Education, Washington, D.C.

Ill. Teach. Illinois Teacher, Springfield, Ill.

Improv. Coll. & Univ. Teach. Improving College and University Teaching, Corvallis, Oreg.

Ind. & Eng. Chem. News Edn. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, News Edition, Washington, D.C.

Independent. Independent, New York, N.Y.

Jour. Eng. Educ.

Jour. Higher Educ.

Journal of Engineering Education, Urbana, Ill.

Journal of Higher Education, Columbus, Ohio.

Jun. Coll. Jour. Junior College Journal, Washington, D.C. and Austin, Tex.

Lad. Home Jour. Ladies Home Journal, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lib. Educ. Liberal Education, Washington, D.C.

Colleges Bulletin, before 1959.)

Lib. Jour. Library Journal, New York, N.Y.

Life. Life, New York, N.Y.

Lit. Digest. Literary Digest, New York, N.Y.

McCall's. McCall's Magazine, New York, N.Y.

(Association of American

Miss. Val. Hist. Review. Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Lincoln, Nebr. N.Y. Her.-Trib. Book Rev. New York Herald-Tribune Book Review, New York, N.Y.

N.Y. Times. New York Times, New York, N.Y.

N.Y. Times Book Review. New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.

N.Y. Times Mag. New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.

Nation.

The Nation, New York, N.Y.

Nation's Schools. The Nation's Schools, Chicago, Ill.

NEA Jour. National Educational Association, Journal, Washington, D.C.