This document has been extracted from the same author's "Toward a Rational Educational Policy," which is an econometric analysis of the components of educational expenditure in the Ontario educational system. The author outlines some substantial changes in approach to educational policy that will be necessary if desirable educational…

Presents instructions for building a flow tank to study fluids in motion. Includes diagrams, lists of materials, and uses of the flow tank. References given. (MA)

Institutions of higher education are faced with difficult decisions on the allocation of funds between decentralized minicomputers and computer centers. The Computer Policy Committee at the University of Michigan provides a useful example of policy formation and decision-making regarding the acquisition and utilization of computers. Acquisition…

Seven local government organizations are evaluated in terms of their ability to search out and respond to the properties of the external environment; to use their resources to produce outputs and to maintain and restore the system; and to bargain and optimize their use of resources with other decision-makers. (Author/MLF)

Swedens necessity for and present efforts toward energy conservation are discussed. The district system for space heating and certain Swedish laws that promote energy conservation are described. (MDR)

Focusing on the functions of knowledge, production and utilization (KPU), this article examines educational research and development funding in different federal agencies. Policy concerns which should guide funding decisions are discussed. (GC)

A marketing and management professor advocates the use of a marketing approach for industrial training personnel during a period of recession. He states that marketing rather than just salesmanship is needed to promote training programs for lower as well as upper management. (MF)

Assesses the current energy problems and considers possible solutions. (MDR)

Results of the Association of American Medical Colleges' sixth annual survey of income, expense, and general operating information for university-owned teaching hospitals are presented. The survey questionnaire was mailed to 63 hospitals, of which 61 responded. (LBH)

Trustees should not plan but they must assure themselves that the planning process is sound, complete, and based on realistic assessments. Suggestions for asking the right questions in the decision-making process are offered in this condensation of a speech made at the National Conference on Trusteeship. (LBH)

The areas discussed relate to materials costs, collection development, circulation trends and patterns, comparisons of use in various department and/or school libraries, and identification of user groups within the Purdue University Libraries. (LBH)

Performance assessment involves comparing the level and quality of an institution's outcomes with its objectives and examining input-output (cost-benefit) relationships. (Author/IRT)

In determining how to allocate resources, focus must be placed on the tradeoffs between utilization of already-established courses within a college of pharmacy (or the university) and the design of a totally new group of courses for the training of clinical scientists. Most necessary courses are already available. (Author/LBH)

Considers 10 areas of internal operations in which the Research Libraries Group/North American Collection Inventory Project (RLF/NCIP) Conspectus can be used as a management aid: collection priorities, collection management, space utilization, preservation programs, staffing allocations, material fund requests, accreditation, materials selection,…

The market principle has not worked. Women have long performed work of equal demand as men, but have not been equally compensated for it. Consitutional law prohibits such wage inequities. Society's resources must be more equitably allocated to make up for and correct that unequal treatment. (PS)