In both purpose and practice, general education in American higher education has experienced several recurring debates and national revivals. In a world with constantly evolving technology, students need a strong general education to be flexible and adaptable to the changes of the world. General education is an important component and requirement…

The HELP (Higher Education Long-Range Planning) system enables an individual without any prior experience in the field to understand and apply the technology of computers and simulation to management information systems. (Editor)

Discusses the emergence of institutional research during the last decade and the need for an image for "potentiality of change" in higher education. Specifies steps in beginning and improving institutional research, and points to the crucial problem of developing priorities. The necessity of sustaining institutional support for projects is also…

This report discusses the alternative program structure developed independently at the University of Georgia, by dealing with a particular phase of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) work, i.e., their Program Classification Structure (PCS). Three primary programs presented by NCHEMS are considered as primary…

This working paper is the culmination of a number of meetings of the Task Force on the Community College with people in community colleges and their communities, as well as with people in noncollege communities, to obtain views regarding the nature of community colleges and the functions that they should perform in British Columbia. Special areas…

This document defines a wide range of measures of the outcomes (results or impacts) of postsecondary education institutions and their programs and suggests procedures for acquiring the data needed for each measure. The outcome measures described are ones identified by a survey of institutional and state-level decision makers as providing the…

Reported are the execution and outcomes of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) Performance Funding Project at Tennessee Technological University, a pilot project seeking to explore the question of whether it is desirable and possible to allocate state funds to community colleges and universities on a performance effectiveness…

Several sets of outlines, charts, and diagrams present an overview of a comprehensive institutional program at Delaware County Community College (DCCC) which incorporates planning, research, and marketing strategies. The first set of documents outlines the objective-based planning process, describes the organizational framework, defines…

Current concepts and realities of comprehensive planning act as a backdrop for a discussion of the types and sources of information required to support components of institutional planning processes. Information to support components of the planning process are outlined in relation to practical opportunities and to the intent, commitment, and…

Papers are on the topics of: perspectives on the place of institutional research in policy, programs, and politics (William H. Faricy, Virginia P. Mitchell, Paul L. Kenepp, Dwight C. Smith, Jr., Wendell G. Lorang, Jr., Ronald H. Stein); assessment and management in higher education (Jerry W. Brown, J. Barton Luedeke, Adolph Katz, James J.…

The development of a planning, budgeting, and evaluation model, referred to as an "academic audit" model, at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, is described. The model is essentially a model for planning resource reallocation in conjunction with redefining and reestablishing institutional goals and mission statements.…

Consisting mainly of charts, graphs, and lists, this publication presents materials used in the Delaware County Community College (DCCC) planning and institutional research processes. Guidelines for establishing DCCC mission, goals, objectives, and management by objectives performance standards relative to planning changes, instructional programs,…

Six major conference papers cover selected planning activities for eight institutions of higher education. Discussed are academic planning for the University of Houston; circulation, parking, and landscape planning for the University of California at Irvine; planning office organization and staffing at Harvard and Ohio State Universities; building…

The Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (CAEL) Project involves Educational Testing Service and some 250 member institutions. The purpose of the project is to develop procedures and materials that will be useful in strengthening the assessment of experiential learning in higher education. This report describes extensive findings that…