A planning cycle for any autonomous university entity contains five basic processes: information storage and retrieval forecasting, resource allocation, scheduling, and a term of study with a feedback loop. The resource allocation process is investigated for the development of shortrange planning models. Dynamic models wth linear and quadratic…

This study examines the relationship between organizational structure and elements of three social system processes: (1) input and output boundary exchanges, (2) system production, and (3) use of facilities. The specific system processes are enrollment planning and student placement, curriculum continuity, and use of physical and social…

This information aid presents the latest available statistics on existing size, reviews the research on size, points out the difficulties in arriving at a universally acceptable and supportable recommendation on size, and suggests some recent developments in education that might help alleviate the size drawbacks for the excessively small or large…

The documents surveyed in this review are limited in three ways: first, in many cases only the general terms "large" and "small" are used in the discussion of school size. Second, most of the studies deal with secondary schools because there is greater concern with the extent of curriculum offerings at that level. Third, many authors draw…

The Vermont Regional Community College Commission was established to oversee the pre-planning phase of the OEO grant to establish a community college demonstration model. The VRCCC developed a demonstration model of the community college system through 3 regional sites responsible for developing community college operations in Vermont communities.…

With the implementation of an open admissions policy in 1970-71, Bronx Community College undertook a study of students entering in the fall of 1970 to determine changes in levels of academic preparation, trends in attrition and retention for students differentially prepared for college work, identification of entry variables associated with…

This publication presents in summary form the development of the two end products of the Trenton Title III project: (1) an educational planning system called STEP (System for Tranton's Educational Planning) and (2) a new planning office, the Division of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. Included is the outline of the planning cycle, a discussion…

This synthesized report of program goals and accomplishments for career education in Oregon lists key goals with corresponding performance objectives for 12 focal areas. These emphases for a career education program for elementary, secondary, post-secondary, and adult curriculums include: (1) career awareness, (2) career exploration, (3) career…

This evaluative instrument provides the prospective evaluator with a means for systematically viewing nine common elements of Adult and Continuing Education Centers. These elements are: (1) setting and students; (2) philosophy and objectives; (3) facilities and equipment; (4) instructional programs; (5) administrative organization; (6) personnel;…

This document is an English language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of the Fourth Indian Five Year Plan Report, Chapter 15, which deals with Education and Manpower. India's tasks in providing educational facilities for children in the 6-14 age group are immense. Only about 60% of that age group are in school today. The Plan refers to this…

This is the report of the fourth year of the summer employment training program for disadvantaged youth. The first section of the report deals with the recruitment of faculty for conducting classes in English, Mathematics, and Typing, and of trainees, with the assistance of the local Pennsylvania State Employment Service. This section also focuses…

Views and recommendations of the Commission on Post-Secondary Education of Ontario, Canada, related to meeting the needs of post-secondary education in the province during the next two decades are presented in this draft of the final report. The report discusses the aims and objectives of post-secondary education, the prospects for change, and…

This paper is intended to furnish the necessary context and background information for an understanding of the role and functions of the Queensland, Australia Pre-School Correspondence Program. This educational service, the first of its kind in Australia, occurred within the context of a policy to provide one year of free preschool education for…

The Constitution mandates that the states take primary responsibility for education. Except for a few specialized institutions, such as the service academies, educational institutions have been chartered, incorporated, licensed and/or authorized to operate by the states. This historical relationship between the states and higher education is…

This paper examines individually and comparatively the philosophical and legal bases and the funding patterns of the community college systems of Illinois and Tennessee. The Illinois community college system represents a locally controlled, state coordinated, shared funding approach while the Tennessee system represents a state controlled,…