The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Board of Governors are pleased to release the "2021-22 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan for the California Community Colleges." To support community college districts grow and improve their educational facilities, the Facilities Planning Unit of the California Community Colleges…

The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office and the Board of Governors are pleased to release the "2020-21 Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan for the California Community Colleges." To support community college districts grow and improve their educational facilities, the Facilities Planning Unit of the California Community Colleges…

The Governor of California annually submits a five-year capital infrastructure plan to the Legislature in conjunction with the governor's budget. To accomplish this, every entity of state government is required to provide to the Department of Finance information related to capital infrastructure needs and costs for a five-year period. This report…

The Mt. Hood Community College (MHCC) (Oregon) Institutional Master Plan is divided into two sections: the education plan and the facility plan. The education portion presents the institutional mission, vision, and core values, along with key demographic and population projections for the next decade. The report then outlines the goals, action…

Discusses the planning of educational facilities to accomodate technological change. (PF)

The real potential of the Council of Educational Facility Planners as a worldwide organization is the willingness of members to share experience and information, and move together towards the development of a philosophy of planning and design that adds to and takes from the experience of individual members, regions, and countries. (Author)

This report presents an evaluation of progress made by the Chicago component of Project Simu-School in moving toward the attainment of its stated objectives. It is divided into five main sections: (1) evaluator's activities; (2) detailed product, process, and management evaluation; (3) description of evaluator's onsite findings; (4)…

In an era of financial constraint, the planner must produce the most reasonable plan that is acceptable to the most parties as accurately, honestly, and objectively as possible. (Author/WM)

Seven million children in the United States (one out of every 10) have permanent disabilities. Because of new State laws and recent court decisions, public schools must enroll at all levels a class of students comprised of the deaf, blind, handicapped; or those who suffer from speech impairments, mental retardation, emotional disorders, or…

This paper discusses the initial planning and building of a communication arts complex at Kent State University in Ohio and presents the author's observations about the complex ten years later. The physical dimensions of the complex are described in detail, including the facts that the original plan allowed for 10,000 students and that by 1973 the…

The selections in this collection explore topics related to the future of information technology and strategic, academic, resource, and facilities planning in institutions of higher education. Part 1, "Developing the Vision: Principles, Paradigms, Life Cycles, and Values," contains: (1) "Mega-Level Strategic Planning: Beyond Conventional Wisdom"…

This anthology contains selections from "Planning for Higher Education," the quarterly journal of the Society for College and University Planning. Following the preface, the second section, "Coming Changes in Academe," contains these articles: (1) "Designing Colleges for Greater Learning" (Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini, v20 n3); (2) "The…

A great deal of new thinking is going on in the field of educational planning in new towns. Problems include the taxpayer revolt against the escalating costs of education and the slowness of educational change to occur. Developers are investigating the possibilities of joint development and use of public facilities. (Author/MLF)

A planning committee of educators in Maine made three recommendations for extending educational opportunities below the baccalaureate level to more people: (1) the development of a comprehensive community college structure for the state; (2) the use of existing public and private facilities instead of constructing new buildings; and (3) the…