Higher education administrators are finding that they can cut construction costs, improve communications, and provide for future changes, by removingoffice walls. (Editor/PG)

By having a university 'stores' set up with a blanket order with about 115 local vendors, a university has eliminated petty cash disbursements for small purchases and proliferating purchase orders. (Author/PG)

A profile of the purchasing agent, determined by a survey, indicates personal, professional and institutional characteristics. (Editor)

A 3-phase building program will add $11 million worth of new physical plant to Lakeland Community College's 500 acre campus by 1975. (Editor)

Presents ways to improve communication with the purchasing office: summarizing procedures of purchasing in a brochure for the whole university; update bidder lists; buy from sources as close to the university as possible; and look for substitute products at all times. (Author/PG)

Responses to a study indicate that educational purchasing agents feel that they are performing relatively important functions within the institutional organization. The primary role of the purchasing agent, regardless of organizational structure, vertical or horizontal interaction, bureaucracy and personalities involved, is to enhance the…

A survey which focused on parking problems created by the increase of cars on campus is reported. The information was collected by questionnaire from 27 colleges. Sample responses from the institution are cited to illustrate the varied aspects of the problem, for example, the University of Akron has 8,000 students of which only 10% live on campus;…

With pressure on all sides, City University of New York initiated an open admissions policy on its sixteen campuses which now must be made to work. (Editor/IR)