The K-8 Early Implementers Initiative has found that careful planning is critical. With thin planning, unexpected detours or dead ends are likely. However, with solid planning, districts are more likely to achieve their implementation goals and may discover some express lanes for their implementation journey. This evaluation report documents…

The agenda for national development requires a persistent improvement in education as a tool for creating knowledgeable human capital, highly skilled labour, a high technology society and ultimately a highly civilized nation for the future challenging world. It requires considerable financial and technical investment as well as effective and…

After decades of focusing on expansion and access, California's institutions of higher education are now being handed a more difficult charge: to dramatically increase the number of college graduates with diminishing state funding. There is a growing consensus that the United States needs to ratchet up its production of college graduates to turn…

A campus master plan cannot predict the future of a campus, but it can provide a valuable and productive road map for future development. This article suggests that such a road map might best meet an institution's needs and resources when it is linked to the reasons it decided to plan in the first place. Identifying the reasons for planning…

This report is prepared in accordance to state law requiring the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) to prepare a biennial report for submission to the Nevada State Legislature that outlines a plan for new programs and expansions of existing programs of instruction, public service and research. This report highlights the strategic objectives…

Creating a campus master plan is the first step in the process of managing enrollment growth; however, the plan is not just a document about buildings and parking spaces and classrooms and square footage. The plan should be viewed as an investment in the future of the institution and a way to link the college's mission and vision statements to the…

In 1960, California developed a "master plan" for its already famed public higher education system. It was and continues to be arguably the single most influential effort to plan the future of a system of higher education in the annals of American higher education. Despite popular belief, however, the California Master Plan for Higher…

This report describes the process for implementing the policy goals and recommendations of the 2008 Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education. The report provides analysis and strategies to guide the development of the state's higher education system over the next decade and beyond. The strategies follow from four basic priorities: (1) Preserve…

Traces the experience of the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education in developing a master plan, including the timetable, who should participate, and how to evolve recommendations. (Author/PG)

By 1985 Hillsborough Junior College will be a comprehensive community college composed of five campuses, each having four sub-colleges, and a total enrollment of 25,000 students. This report outlines the long-range goals of the institution as well as the objectives to be met during the 1969-70 academic year. To meet these objectives, the college…

Accountability is being required of all America's institutions of higher education. Gallaudet College, an institution for the deaf in Washington, D.C., feels it has found a solution to the accountability problem in the use of "measurable objectives" in its program planning. The first phase from January 1 through June 30, 1972 of…

This report is a history of Iowa's post-secondary education, outlining various studies, legislation, and possible restructuring of provisions of the existing Iowa Code that might lead to a combination of 2-year junior college education and area vocational education into a single comprehensive institution. The final pattern, however, was the…

Phase I of the Master Plan for Higher Education in Maryland sets forth an assessment of the needs for and of higher education in the state, and develops a design for meeting these needs. The purposes of the Plan are to provide for the most effective and economical use of the state's educational resources, to make the commitment of the state to…

This Master Plan for the City Colleges of Chicago outlines their goals for the latter half of the 1970's. Thirty-two recommendations are made concerning six goal areas: community and people, programs, instruction, facilities, finance, and organization. Among the recommendations are the following: (1) by 1980 the city colleges should aim to serve…

Presented in this document is the text of presentations delivered by the principal speakers at the Colloquium on Higher Education in Connecticut. The colloquium was decided on as one means of accomplishing dual goals: (1) informing the public of the Commission's program for developing a Master Plan for higher education pursuant to the provisions…