A 10-member panel of judges selected two North Carolina community colleges with a high degree of democratic governance and two community colleges with a low degree of democratic governance. All full-time instructors at these four institutions were mailed a research instrument based on the semantic differential technique, and designed to test six…

The application of management by objectives (MBO) at Roosevelt University is described. Semantic problems were overcome and "administration by objectives" was implemented as a process by which institutional goals and objectives and those of each administrator are made explicit and agreed upon, the detailed steps and the sources needed to…

This discussion of the Pennsylvania Model Project follows a flow chart to cover all aspects of the program: mission, awareness and understanding, advantages and disadvantages, commitment, needs assessment, isolation of problems, setting priorities, assessing the present program, reevaluation of priorities, planning staff allocation, goals and…

This report provides a general overview of the Instrument for the Observation of Teaching Activities (IOTA) program for assessing and improving teacher competence. IOTA is an analytic, objective, and specific means of assessing teaching activities. The normal three-step progression of groups through the introductory and training stages of the…

Because today's college administrators must find an acceptable balance between educational desirability, economic feasibility, political expediency, social relevancy, and philosophical defensibility, many have turned to Management by Objectives (MBO), which coordinates management activities with institutional goals. MBO is concerned with the…

The model for planning groups presented in this paper is an attempt to provide varying levels of organizational leaders with a device to increase planning efficiency and effectiveness. The planning process is highlighted as it might be viewed through the eyes of the individual responsible for completion of the planning task. The major emphasis is…

The aim of the CIRF abstracts is to convey information about vocational training ideas, programs, experience, and experiments described in periodicals, books, and other publications and relating to operative personnel, supervisors, and technical and training staff in all sectors of economic activity. Information is also given on major trends in…

This report is a descriptive evaluation of the five pilot sites of Project TREND (Targeting Resources on the Educational Needs of the Disadvantaged). The five Local Education Agency (LEA) pilot sites are the educational systems of: (1) Akron, Ohio; (2) El Paso, Texas; (3) Newark, New Jersey; (4) Portland, Oregon; and, (5) San Jose (Unified),…

The teaching manual for the chartering process devised as a management and communications tool in educational administration is presented. Following an introductory statement to the instructor and an introduction to the workshop, the manual is divided into the phases of the chartering process: (1) scanning and selecting critical issues; (2)…

The results of two surveys that were conducted to determine the feasibility of starting programs in (a) Banking, Finance and Credit, and (b) Material Management at William Rainey Harper College are provided. The surveys were made of (a) all banks and savings and loan institutions in the north and western suburbs and downtown Chicago, and (b) 531…

The resource guide contains over 900 items dealing with new business formation and the enterprising person. Included are books, articles, films, tapes, games, and research reports published since 1960. It is divided into 21 categories: the entrepreneur; the female entrepreneur; the minority entrepreneur; entrepreneurship in other cultures;…

Planning-programing-budgeting systems (PPBS) have borne few of the fruits that many claimed they would. This is partly due to the five following widely held misconceptions about PPBS: 1) that PPBS is primarily concerned with budgeting; 2) that PPBS should displace instructional goals; 3) that it is not necessary to attend to all elements of PPBS;…

Intended for both researchers and practitioners, this review analyzes literature on educational accountability and performance contracting. It defines the concepts, describes certain individual contracts completed or in progress, discusses the use of management systems and safeguards, identifies some testing and measurement problems, and probes…

The symposium focused on advances in techniques in the computer oriented technology of information retrieval. Early developments and the status of recent efforts in document retrieval, question answering and data management systems are briefly reviewed. Unless fundamental processing techniques are developed and made available to workers,…

The Career Exploratory Program management system is designed to assist the local school teacher/coordinator in the organization and management of the program. The system defines and describes the accountability line from teacher-coordinator, through the Career Planning and Placement Center teacher/coordinator and the local school principal to the…