The Academic Plan was developed to avoid unnecessary duplication of program efforts, make more efficient use of facilities and teaching staff, and insure continuing excellence of higher education in Wisconsin. The first part of the plan discusses its purposes, which include increasing educational opportunities in the state and insuring the…

Project USHER is designed to help community colleges implement a humanistic management system. This objective is to be achieved by giving each participating college the capability to redesign its own educational system through implementing a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system (PPBE) within the context of participative…

The theme of this document is that programmatic decision making can be carried out effectively only if appropriate kinds of information are made available. If an institution knows its objectives, it can define a course of action for the years ahead. Through use of a cost simulation model, it can forecast the resource implications of that plan.…

The planning technique or device, regardless of its degree of sophistication, is only a tool and cannot be substituted for effective managers. The planning process must be an integral part of the entire management process, which often evolves over many generations of trial and error. The function of planning and management entails the continuous,…

Because of the interest in an increasing usage of formal planning, programming, budgeting systems (PPBS), this report carefully analyzes the nature and role of PPBS and its potential impact on higher education. Part I describes the salient features of PPBS and traces the development and related analytical techniques in governmental agencies and…

A guide to offer the nursing home administrator and his inservice education coordinator a source of information about the process of program planning in inservice education is presented. To plan a program, the following steps are necessary: (1) Know the problem; (2) Gather the facts; (3) Examine the facts; (4) Select the best solution; (5) Gain…

Discussion of problems associated with designing instructional programs for rural, sparsely populated school districts is illustrated with examples of educational planning in Jefferson County, Florida. The county is characterized by a diminishing agrarian economy, poverty, a 75% black school enrollment, and educational disadvantagement. Factors to…

There are two levels of planning: strategic and operational. Strategic planning takes place at the upper levels of management and relates to the longrange objectives of an organization. Operational planning takes place at the middle, or lower, management echelon and deals with the implementation of strategic plans. It is the task of the chief…

This paper describes a planning cost model for estimating the comparable replication cost of an educational program for use in evaluating alternative programs and planning future programs. The conceptual and methodological bases of cost analysis are explored and the shortcomings of present methods for comparison and evaluation of educational…

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) implies the necessity to program the sequence of steps leading to the completion of a product. It takes cognizance of the need to define clearly each event and recognizes the obligation to describe the start and/or the completion of the interdependent activities. Essentially, the PERT chart is a…

The article delineates the planning and funding of industrial arts programs at the local level as outlined in Part 102 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, which provides industrial arts programs with an opportunity to fulfill two of the three major goals of vocational education. (Author)

The "Planning Wheel" is an evolution of the original Systems Approach Model (SAM) that was introduced in 1986 by Murk and Galbraith. Unlike most current planning models, which are linear in design and concept, the Planning Wheel bridges the gap between linear and nonlinear processes. The "Program Planning Wheel" is designed to…

Author describes his system for helping students to plan and take responsibility for their own program of study. (Author)

Four-stage model is presented as a way of achieving diversity in the means and ends of education primarily through more educational planning at the local level. (HD)

Author briefly restated the intentions of the representatives of the people of Illinois when they created Sangamon State University, interpreted them as intellectual purposes, and delineated a few of the functions important in carrying them out. (Author/RK)