This study addressed the perceptions held by student teachers in Nebraska concerning administration as a career, their aspirations to become administrators, and the encouragement received by males and females to become administrators. A questionnaire was administered to 322 individuals who were student teachers during the Fall Semester of 1990, to determine whether they had considered careers in school administration and whether they had received encouragement to do so. Results indicated that most of the respondents considered administration to be a managerial role; leadership did not rank highly in the student teachers’ perceptions of administrators. Most of the respondents did aspire to become administrators at some point. More than one-half of the respondents had been encouraged to enter administration, but this encouragement did not appear to affect their decision. There were no differences reported for the amount of encouragement received by males and by females.
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