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Chapman, Anne W. – 1992
Focusing on the development of the United States Army's National Training Center (NTC) from conceptualization and initial implementation in 1981 to the end of the first phase of development in 1984, this monograph provides a documented historical analysis of how and why the landmark event in army training was launched and examines attendant policy…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Federal Government, Military Personnel, Military Training
Smith, Gerald W. – 1980
Using original source documents, secondary sources, and the author's personal knowledge, this ten-chapter monograph traces the development of the Illinois junior and community colleges from 1946 through 1980. While focusing on the characteristics, functions, and legislative mandates of the colleges in the 1940's, Chapter I also summarizes the…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Construction Programs, Court Litigation
Rosen, George – 1980
Major decisions made by public institutions that resulted in the location of a permanent campus of the University of Illinois first within the Chicago area and then at a particular site are examined. The decision-making process is examined from economic, social, and political stances. The respective roles played in the process by the university,…
Descriptors: Campus Planning, College Role, Community Role, Decision Making
Dresslar, Fletcher B. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1911
In preparing this bulletin the writer has addressed himself to some of the more important questions with which school boards and architects have to deal when they enter upon the work of planning a school building. It is not a treatise on school hygiene, but a discussion of the requirements of school buildings from the schoolman's point of view…
Descriptors: Educational History, Architecture, Educational Facilities Design, School Buildings
Viles, N. E. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1957
This bulletin is designed as an outline to direct the attention of local officials to various features and steps meriting attention in planning and carrying out a school-plant construction program. Planning, administration, and construction practices and procedures may vary with buildings of different sizes or types of construction or with those…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Trends, School Buildings, School Construction
Cook, William A. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
With the increase of population, the lengthening of the school life of children, and the consolidation of small into large schools, often with many hundreds of children in one building, the care of the health of children while in school becomes correspondingly more important. Since the health of school children depends to a large extent on the…
Descriptors: Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Compulsory Education