The purpose of this manual is to offer assistance to colleges and universities involved with, or interested in, improvement in their fundamental administrative process in a manner compatible with the Planning, Management and Evaluation System (PME) approach articulated by the United States Office of Education. Planning is defined as that institutional process by which the college establishes its mission and its derivative goals and objectives; management in the PME context addresses those policies and operating decisions which enable the college to achieve its objectives; and evaluation is concerned with determining the actual performance of the institution as weighed against the intended outcomes. The body of this manual consists of a presentation and discussion of PME techniques. Among them are Planning, Programming and Budgeting (PPB), Management by Objectives (MBO), Management Information Systems (MIS), and Transaction Information Systems (TIS). Although PME application varies situationally from one institution to another, the final section of this manual describes generally appropriate considerations for implementation of PME. Numerous illustrative charts and graphs are included throughout the manual in further explication of the text. (Author/JDS)