The purpose of this report is to describe, chronicle and evaluate for the academic library community at large the Cornell University long-range planning effort. Planning effort is the phrase now used by Cornell librarians to describe their recent and continuing experience in developing a planning team, a dynamic long-range strategic plan,…

This is a revision of a guide (IR 003 265) for planning a library workshop. It is presented in five parts: (1) the workshop planners, (2) planning the program, (3) the day of the workshop, (4) evaluation and followup, and (5) information sources. The major part of the guide is concerned with program planning and covers needs assessment,…

Discusses an approach to planning that is necessary if management development is to be successful. (JOW)

This document, replacing a 1992 edition, offers administrative guidelines to assist in the implementation of Regent policy on academic planning and program review in the University of Wisconsin (UW) System. These guidelines provide information on the UW System: (1) planning in academic programs and academic support programs; (2) planning and…

These guidelines are designed for use by the vice chancellor, dean, department chair, and others involved in academic program planning and approval within the University of Wisconsin System. The full policy governing academic program planning and review is contained in another document, "Academic Planning and Program Review." The major…

Both systematic long-range and annual planning are necessary functions of vocational educator programs. This article describes a model for a cyclical method of organizing for planning which allows the planner to identify and isolate to process components as well as to see their interrelationships. (KP)

The purposes of this article are to assess the present status of planning-programming-budgeting systems in education and to offer operational illustrations to those who wish to install certain aspects of PPBS in their school districts. (Author)

Suggests that the best organizational model to expedite university planning would make provision for a 5-stage process: localized planning, planning by committee, planning by an outside agency, institutional research, and the establishment of a specific planning department. (Author)

Presents a field-developed and tested method of comprehensive planning for program/project development. (Author)

Describes the development of a literacy program by a public library and discusses considerations that should be made in planning a literacy program. (CHC)

Outlines reasons why middle schools were developed and presents a program that is suggested to prepare staff members for their new roles if a district adopts middle schools. (IRT)

Data from interviews with 20 Canadian continuing educators confirmed a praxis model, which depicts the interactive relationship of three kinds of practical knowledge: declarative, procedural, and conditional. The educators engaged in deliberative planning, an intentional, systematic process informed by practical knowledge. (SK)

The planning compass is a tool for analyzing priorities for health-promotion programs. It considers groups, settings, topics, and methodologies; it includes a planning checklist and operational plan. Nursing students were able to use the tool with minimal difficulty. (SK)