In illustrating how systems analysis can aid university planning, a report is presented of the early results of the application of systems analysis to problems of planning in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Analysis is reported of various alternative policies concerning enrollment, curriculum, involvement of teaching, hospitals,…

Viewing the school system as a set of subsystems with intersubsystem inputs and outputs, an organizational structure assessment instrument was designed to test the hypothesis that quantification of these inputs and outputs would make possible the determination of internal conditions of the school system which contribute to differences in school…