Explains how modular buildings are uniquely qualified to solve space crunch problems, budgetary concerns, and time pressures when expanding and improving educational facilities. (GR)

Presents design features of the award-winning Carroll Junior High School (Southlake, Texas) that provides maximum flexibility for its staged expansion into a high school and a rapidly increasing school enrollment. Photos and a floor plan are provided. (GR)

Reveals how some schools are meeting the challenge of building new spaces to stimulate and inspire students during periods of climbing enrollment. The extent and character of the enrollment boom and its impact on public schools and universities are highlighted. (GR)

Two critical concerns with the rapid and ongoing expansion of charter schools are that they will segregate students and reduce the per-pupil resources available to conventional public schools. The contradictory prior evidence on such questions is based on potentially misleading cross-sectional comparisons. This study provides new evidence on these…

Pursuant to Education Code 66903, the California Postsecondary Education Commission is charged with reviewing and commenting on the need for new academic programs at California's public colleges and universities and with making recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor. In September 2006, the Commission considered a proposal to establish…

This paper analyzes the economic development of Hays County, Texas, the site of Southwest Texas State University and indicates the important effect of that university's growth on the county, which might otherwise have stagnated. (JH)

A STUDY WAS INITIATED TO ORIENT SCHOOL PLANNERS TO A SYSTEMATIC METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AND ANALYZING FACTORS PERTINENT TO SITE SELECTION. THE REVIEW OF LITERATURE REVEALED THAT LITTLE WAS WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT. A SURVEY OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATION REVEALED THAT TWO STATES HAD PUBLISHED MATERIALS ON SITE SELECTION. HOWEVER, THERE WERE…

THE DESIGN OF THIS ONE-STORY, ECONOMICALLY PLANNED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IS DEVELOPED TO SUIT A GENERALIZED SET OF AREA CHARACTERISTICS. THE FEATURES OF THIS SCHOOL FOR 800 TO 1000 PUPILS ARE SUITABLE FOR EITHER A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING SUBURB OF A LARGE CITY OR THE OUTSKIRTS OF A RAPIDLY GROWING VILLAGE. THE BASIC SITE OF 20 TO 30 ACRES SUPPORTS A TIGHT…

Traces the development of Harvard University through three centuries of decentralization, complexity, and diversity. (Author/MLF)

A new addition to the high school in Parma, a large suburban district near Cleveland, Ohio, contains space for business education courses and expansion of the library with an audiovisual center. (Author/MLF)

Declining enrollments and consolidation of school building resources throughout the 1970's resulted in strains on educational facilities as baby boomers now crowd classrooms in the 1980's. Outlines factors administrators should consider when deciding whether to begin new construction projects or remodel existing facilities. (MD)

The historical relationship between technical change and school expansion has been dependent on a particular institutional structure of schooling. However, without the causal role of technical change at critical periods, the continual spiral of school expansion could not have been sustained. (RM)

From the 79 outstanding projects, representing the full range of educational facilities featured in this special issue, the jury has awarded citations to 9 particularly outstanding projects. Descriptions, the jury's comments, photographs or drawings, and some floor plans are included. (MLF)

The library system at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) is decentralized and scattered throughout the multiple building campus, which itself is spread over the of town of Leuven. This paper presents an overview of a discussion at the university leading to the construction of a new central library for its Exact Sciences campus. Arguments…