The report details the results of a unique experimental demonstration of applying university resources to local government problems. Faculty-student teams worked with city and county personnel on projects chosen by mutual agreement, including work in areas of traffic management, law enforcement, waste heat utilization, solid waste conversion, and…

Section 131(b) of Part C of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1968 provides Federal funding for State-administered research and development activities in vocational education. The funds are allocated to the States on the basis of a population formula prescribed in the law. The total funding amounted to almost 18 million dollars in fiscal year…

The results of the G.A.O.'s State-by-State investigation of the status of the $1.7 billion distributed to 50 State governments and the District of Columbia for 1972 are reported in this pamphlet. The investigation attempted to assess the actual impact of revenue sharing in such areas as tax reduction, changes in budget priorities, and increased…

Because of the interest in an increasing usage of formal planning, programming, budgeting systems (PPBS), this report carefully analyzes the nature and role of PPBS and its potential impact on higher education. Part I describes the salient features of PPBS and traces the development and related analytical techniques in governmental agencies and…

This study presents a methodology for planning the efficient development of the educational infrastructure in a region. It is primarily concerned with solving the problem of how one allocates an exogenously fixed set of resources among different educational programs. In addition it deals with such related issues as: How does one choose among…

This study attempted to identify the differences in cost-effectiveness analysis methods in order to select the most appropriate one as a decision-assisting aid for instructional management. The study is organized to explore and identify what cost-effectiveness methods are being used, identify and examine the differences among these methods in an…

This paper considers selected aspects of the systems analysis of administrative decisionmaking regarding resource allocations in an educational system. A model of the instructional materials purchase system is presented. The major components of this model are: environment, input, decision process, conversion structure, conversion process, output,…

The academic accounting system developed at Miami-Dade Junior College (Florida) is intended to aid in the instructional planning process. The objectives of the system are to: (1) compare various organizational arrangements for instruction; (2) provide a basis for the development of a cost effectiveness analysis system for instruction; (3) provide…

This report presents the results of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Survey of Scientific Activities at Universities and Colleges, 1971, dealing exclusively with the employment of scientific and engineering personnel and the financing of scientific activities in U.S. institutions of higher education. The survey was conducted by mail…

The development and evaluation of a system for designing instructional plans and resource patterns for those plans are described. Development of the system, which was in three stages, was based on the premise that decisions concerning efficient allocation of resources and the use of resources for effective instruction cannot realistically be made…

The appropriations formula used by the Tennessee Higher Education to generate operating budget requests for the colleges and universities annually is dependent on a detailed study of instruction and departmental research costs. This publication contains the results of this cost study made in the fall of 1971. The basic unit of measurement that…

Legislation requires that the Comptroller General of the U.S. develop and recommend to the Congress methods for review and evaluation of government programs carried on under existing law. This document is a first step in collecting and disseminating general concepts on these activities and how they are related to other activities in the continuum…

Underinvestment in the basic support structure of energy production and utilization projects is discussed as a major source of inefficiency. Causes lie within institutional and economic constraints on the investment decision process. Four constraints are explored. Appropriate federal impact assistance, siting standards, and energy industry…

In addition to tracing Asian Indian immigration to the United States and examining the cultural boundaries established by the Indian immigrant population in New York, this paper documents the efforts of one Indian organization to secure federal recognition of the Indian population as a single "ethnic group." (Author/EB)

The court's finding invalidates New York State's system of financing schools because of problems including municipal overburden. (Author/IRT)