Based on a talk given at the College Entrance Examination Board's colloquium on barriers to higher education, held at Wingspread Conference Center of the Johnson Foundation, Racine, Wis., June 1970 (RJ)

To help citizens select goals and policies to achieve a preferred future, they are presented with future scenarios and asked, via a short questionnaire, to take a stand on key assumptions underlying the scenarios. The assumptions deal with the impact of the scenarios on the population's lifestyle and economy. (RM)

A multi-attribute attitude model was used to determine whether a multicriteria scale can be used to predict student preferences for and attendance at universities. Data were gathered from freshmen attending five state universities in Ohio. The results indicate a high level of predictability. (Author/MLW)

Scanning the external environment will become more essential to colleges in the coming decade. Developing an environmental scanning system can identify important emerging issues that may constitute either threats or opportunities. The organizational features of a mature scanning process are described. (MLW)

Multivariate analyses of questionnaires and standardized test data indicated that performance at age eight could be predicted with considerable accuracy by a combination of teachers' ratings of home and personal characteristics at age five. (Author/PN)

Describes an inservice technique that models for teachers how they can use the Directed Reading Thinking Activity to develop students' predictive strategies. (FL)

Describes a simulation language--the Integrated Network System (INS)--which lends itself to modeling library operations and presents a simulation in which the circulation department of a university library was subjected to 10- and 20-percent increases in public demand and the efficiency and human resource needs of the department were analyzed.…

Describes the use of future autobiographies, a tool which has been used sparingly in counseling and career development. College students wrote future autobiographies in 1969. In a follow-up study in 1979, they wrote actual autobiographies. Results suggest that individuals are able to develop accurate future cognitive maps. (Author/JAC)

Explores the state of college English instruction and suggests several solutions to the problems of the nineties, including erasing the division between literature and composition teachers and developing closer working relations between educational institutions. (AEA)

For the next few years, we will face slow growth, inflation, high interest rates, the decline of the dollar, recessions, and limits on resources. Regional differences will be important to planning. (Author/JM)

Discusses the meaning of symmetry of the laws of physics and symmetry of the universe and the connection between symmetries and asymmetries of the laws of physics and those of the universe. An explanation of Hamilton's principle is offered. The material is suitable for informal discussions with students. (Author/SK)

Discusses the future of academic libraries from the perspective of their resources and bibliographic control, focusing on collection philosophy, book selection, the collection itself, resource sharing, adequacy of library space, preservation, new cataloging rules, a national bibliographic data base, and subject access. A need for a national…