Roald F. Campbell is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Edu cation at the University of Chicago and, more recently, Fawcett Pro fessor of Educational Administration at the Ohio State University. Now Professor Emeritus at Ohio State, he lives in Salt Lake City and main tains an active affiliation with the Graduate School of Education at the University of Utah. This article was written at the invitation of the Edi torial Board and thepresent editors of the Educational Administration Quarterly to recognize the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the journal.