Described is an institutional administrative policy in which the psychologist enters actively into every phase of the programs and services for the mentally handicapped residents. (Author/CB)

Deinstitutionalization of retarded persons is questioned on conceptual, scientific, and moral grounds. (Author)

The unit management system in residential facilities for the mentally retarded is discussed in terms of positive aspects (facility size reduction, interdisciplinary team development and resource focusing) and negative aspects (such as weakening of professional identity and increased competition and conflict). (CL)

Identified are four requirements of successful management of college real estate, such as commitment to total resource management and an entrepreneurial spirit, and three problems--taxes, communication, and administrative conflict. (DB)

The authors offer suggestions for increasing the quality of research in public administration. Suggestions are based on the observation that successful research universities provide four types of support: (1) institutional values supportive of research, (2) faculty capable of doing research, (3) research resources, and (4) institutionalized…

Compared law school mission statements with questionnaire responses about the school's program, overall direction, and values. Found that while many law schools are addressing issues effectively, they are not doing so through the use of a mission statement. In some areas, top-ranked schools have a significantly different focus, and there are major…

The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners do not express the basic principle that would support a serious educational approach to prison administration. The crucial missing rationale is the concept of the inherent dignity of the individual human prisoner. This concept has certain basic educational implications,…

At the University of Cincinnati, nonacademic administrators attend management institutes to assist in the development of specific skills needed to accomplish their respective tasks more effectively. (Author/PG)

Work sampling estimates the time a worker spends on an activity. In the office situation studied here, it was found that the work could be accomplished by a staff reduced by 23 percent from the present level. Campus-wide use of this technique could result in substantial savings for an institution. (Editor/PG)

Utilizing a social learning approach the Georgia Department of Offender Rehabilitation has implemented a performance-based correctional management model based on the assumption that only self-rehabilitation is viable. Earned Time System (ETS) provides resources and motivational opportunities for inmates to assume personal responsibility for their…

Explored are some of the current problems in the functioning and planning of higher education institutions, particularly viewed through the experience of British institutions. A framework of institutional analysis, the open systems approach, is presented as an essential prerequisite to the understanding of the organization. From this framework is…

These guidelines are designed to make research a more effective instrument in the management and improvement of the correctional sub-system of criminal justice. The Guide emphasizes that: (1) the correctional administrator has several responsibilities to fulfill if he is to benefit from research, and, (2) the researcher must command a variety of…

It has been increasingly evident that significant numbers of students are profoundly dissatisfied with the status quo, on as well as off the campus, and many of them are ready to use force and violence to change it. In some instances student activists want more participation in decision making, and in others they seek complete control. The…