ABSTRACT
Colleges of agriculture and state agricultural experiment stations are very large complex organizations. The managers of the public research and educational programs range from nonacademics with managerial responsibility to deans and university-level administrators. The principal mechanism by which research policy is implemented in agricultural experiment stations and colleges of agriculture is the process of allocating resources to various research efforts. Promotions serve to allocate resources, at least in those situations where a salary increment accompanies the promotion. The quest for gifts, grants, and contracts is becoming more important in the total funding effort of most agricultural experiment stations and colleges of agriculture. The principal decision makers on promotions include any faculty member who is solicited for information on the productivity and quality of work of colleagues, ad hoc and regular committees from which such information is solicited, formally constituted promotion and other evaluation committees at department, college and university levels, directors, deans, and campus or university administrators.
