Initiated in 1969 at the request of the University of California President's Advisory Committee on Learning Resources, this study identifies the essential criteria for planning university learning resources centers in the 1970's. General definitions of learning resources for conventional and innovative instruction are given together with a brief…

This monograph investigates aspects of language processing that are not specialized in the left hemisphere, and claims that there are "levels" (such as pitch functions) and "subsets" (such as phrase structuring) which are different in essential ways from each other, and from the aspects of speech and language which are typically lateralized.…

This document is one of five manuals designed to improve management practices in Ohio two-year colleges. The guidelines and criteria presented here are intended to be used as yardsticks for institutional evaluation of student registration and class scheduling practices. A chapter on the planning process discusses the steps to be taken in planning,…

Two related questions are investigated in this research: (1) the characteristics which differentiate those schools which extensively use educational innovations from those which do not; and (2) the factors that determine whether innovation will be a carefully thought-out and discriminating process, rather than a process primarily influenced by…

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a new federal agency established in August 1972 within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, occupies a parallel position to the Office of Education. The Administration and the Congress believe that a sustained, systematic investment in research, development, testing, and diffusion will…

A compilation is made of reports from a conference dealing with workable administrative practices which provide for individual differences. The nature of individual differences as they operate in reading instruction is defined, and various dimensions, such as growth ages, sex differences, intelligence, cognitive abilities and styles, are discussed…

The articles presented here reveal the current status of community college governance. Topics discussed are: three models of college governance and their interrelationships; participatory governance in Canada; preparing student, faculty, and administrative leaders to understand basic institutional and individual needs and to operative in…

The first of a series, this report describes a 10-year followup study of a sample of 44 graduates of the Sloan School of Management, analyzing the interaction of personal values and career events in the lives of managers in organizations. All 44 participants were located, interviewed, and given the same attitude surveys as in the early 1960's.…

The conference program included four alternative schools which are really unique in that each of the four schools operates with the expressed approval of the board of education or school committee in its particular community and each receives some portion of its support, both financial and moral, from the same board of education or school…

This book describes two different strategies of organization development consultation and analyzes their application in six elementary schools that were attempting to adopt differentiated staffing and multiunit structure. In two schools, the entire staff received a week or organization development consultation before attempting any structural…

This book is based on the premise that each person, in his organizational and institutional roles, is embraced by a network of policy decisions that influence his behavior. From an examination of the importance of policy studies, the author moves to an exploration of the nature of policy and distinguishes the similarities and differences between…

This study focuses on the school district decision to initiate an innovative program. A natural experiment in the identification of school districts interested in initiating serious innovation is used to study the differences between school districts that were and those that were not considering innovation in one specific decisionmaking period. In…

This bibliography provide a listing of over 3,000 higher education holdings in Morris Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Part 1, a listing of books, categorizes according to development of higher education, issues in higher education, nontraditional learning, evaluation and accreditation, economic and business aspects,…

This report analyzes the failure of a small rural community college's plan to deliver non-traditional educational services to non-traditional students by reorganizing its administrative structure; it also discusses the successful programs that finally emerged from this failure. The plan involved elevating the dean of community services to a…

This collection of papers briefly describes a curriculum for an early childhood education program based on parent participation and community involvement, and offers guidelines for school volunteers. The early childhood program described calls for: (1) parents and volunteers to be involved in the planning, implementing, modifying and evaluating of…