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Download full textSapp, Mary M. – 1987
Experiences of the University of Miami's institutional research office, which produces three annual 5-year strategic plans, are reported. Attention is directed to official and unofficial functions of the institutional research office, lessons learned in the process, and suggestions for ways to minimize frustration and maximize usefulness.…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Environment, College Planning, Competition
Sharp, Bobby H.; Nichols, James O. – 1987
Economic long wave research is reviewed and related to major transitions facing higher education. The focus is on economic forecasting as one type of environmental scanning. The Russian economist Kondratieff produced statistical evidence of a long economic wave. The Kondratieff wave appears to be a 45- to 60-year cycle of upswings and downswings…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, College Administration, Delivery Systems, Economic Factors
Duncan, John W. – 1988
This speech discusses the national emerging trend toward state intervention in local educational processes as part of the academic accountability movement. It provides examples of reforms and improvements whereby state intervention furnished local school improvement. The address focuses on state intervention in Jersey City, New Jersey; predicts…
Descriptors: Accountability, Change, Change Agents, Educational Change
Gray, Michael D.; Hardy, Robert C. – 1986
In 1981, a study was conducted at three rural community colleges in Maryland to determine whether there was a difference between the college grade point averages (GPAs) of first-time, full-time students who applied early for admissions and the GPAs of students who applied late. The study analyzed applications and GPA data for a total of 700…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Applicants, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction
Fleming, Margaret; Zafirau, James – 1982
Grades awarded to secondary school students in the Cleveland (Ohio) public schools were analyzed to determine relationships between grades and selected school climate variables in a desegregated urban school district. Failures or F grades and schoolwide non-promotion rates were both related to rates of class attendance and school suspensions. Over…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Attendance, Blacks, Correlation
Moore, Gwendolyn B.; And Others – 1985
The report describes three advanced technologies--robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer simulation--and identifies the ways in which they might contribute to special education. A hybrid methodology was employed to identify existing technology and forecast future needs. Following this framework, each of the technologies is defined,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Daily Living Skills
Uhlig, George E. – 1984
Dangers are inherent in predicting the future. In discussing the future of computers, specifically, it is useful to consider the brief history of computers from the development of ENIAC to microcomputers. Advances in computer technology can be seen by looking at changes in individual components, including internal and external memory, the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Computers
Ruddock, Maryann Steele; Rossy, Kenneth – 1984
The potential use of the preferred imaging technique by the Office of Planning and Analysis of the University of Texas System is discussed, along with the use of environmental scanning. Preferred imaging is used to get people thinking about the future and how it relates to the external environment and the planning process. Preferred imaging…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Environment, College Planning, Demography
Powers, Thomas F., Ed.; Swinton, John R., Ed. – 1975
Volume II of a three-volume study on the future of the food service industry considers the effects that centralized food production will have on the future of food production systems. Based on information from the Fair Acres Project and the Michigan State University Vegetable Processing Center, the authors describe the operations of a centralized…
Descriptors: Centralization, Equipment Utilization, Facility Requirements, Food and Drug Inspectors
Pecorella, Patricia A.; Bowers, David G. – 1976
Multiple regression in a double cross-validated design was used to predict two performance measures (total variable expense and absence rate) by multi-month period in five industrial firms. The regressions do cross-validate, and produce multiple coefficients which display both concurrent and predictive effects, peaking 18 months to two years…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Efficiency
Health Resources Administration (DHEW/PHS), Bethesda, MD. Bureau of Health Manpower. – 1977
This report on estimating physician manpower requirements is intended as a history and summary of the state of the art in manpower requirements estimation and forecasting. It describes the various ways in which manpower requirements have been estimated in recent years and discusses the variety of concepts, methods, definitions, and approaches that…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Health Education, Health Occupations, Health Personnel
Coplin, William D., Ed.; O'Leary, Michael K., Ed. – 1981
This publication will help high school and college students develop policy analysis skills and techniques and apply these to important public issues. A public policy issue is defined as a disagreement between two or more elements of a society over the way that the society's government deals with a given situation. There are six chapters. Chapter…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation, High Schools
Cohen, Edward G. – 1978
In an effort to provide counselors, advisors, and students at Queensborough Community College (QCC) with an estimate of the probable outcomes of probationary status, the academic records of 1,722 students on probation during Fall 1977 were examined to develop an expectancy table delineating the correlation between students' academic status at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Probation, College Credits
Reyes, Alexander
The purpose of this study was to determine the academic achievement of 1972 and 1974 Associate of Arts graduates from San Jose City College. A sample of 300 was selected from the total population of 1,871. The analysis of data focused on 11 independent variables: ethnic background, sex, marital status, high school graduation, day or evening…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, College Graduates, Community Colleges
Fink, C. Dennis – 1973
Fifteen experts in the fields of medical education and biomedical communications identified 95 events and conditions that might occur during the next 20 years in the area of biocommunications, health care delivery, and medical education; this document contains the verbatim comments provided as responses to these conditions by the study…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Health Personnel, Information Centers, Information Needs
