Career maps and institutional highways / Susan B. Twombly -- Thriving at home: developing a career as an insider / Mary Ann D. Sagaria, Cynthia S. Dickens -- Lessons in hiring practices for aspiring academic administrators / Michael R. Dingerson -- Encountering search committees / Jane Fiori Lawrence, Theodore J. Marchese -- Planning for career improvement / Sharon A. McDade -- Mentor relationships: those that help and those that hinder / Linda K. Johnsrud -- The rules of the game: the unwritten code of career mobility / Marlene Ross, Madeleine F. Green -- Bridging the gap between expectations and realities / Marilyn J. Amey -- Creating strengths out of our differences: women and minority administrators / Kathryn M. Moore -- Administration then and now / Joseph F. Kauffman -- Administrative careers and the marketplace: toward the year 2000 / Kathryn M. Moore, Susan B. Twombly.