The Master Plan for Career Guidance and Counseling grew out of the recognition that a prerequisite for the provision of an outstanding, efficient and effective career guidance and counseling program was district-wide planning. The plan was funded by the vocational education council with augmented Vocational Education Act funds. The professional…

This document presents the University of Nevada System comprehensive plan for 1974-1979. Emphasis is placed on goals and objectives of state-supported higher education in Nevada; organization of the system and its major divisions; higher education issues and problems in Nevada in the 1970s; comparative analysis with other systems; a descriptive…

Two regional Occupational Program Planning Institutes were held to provide inservice education for persons involved in administering postsecondary occupational education programs. This report contains an edited compilation of reactor comments and discussion group deliberations for these major papers: (1) "Master Planning in Post-Secondary…

The first 28 pages summarize the whole report. The rest is devoted to the Progress Report itself. Part I deals with the Regents' review of the progress reports of the State University of New York, the City University of New York, and the private colleges and universities in the state. Included in this consideration are reports of the institutions'…

A report made by a study committee to the Board of Higher Education for its use in developing a "master plan" for higher education in Illinois. Contents include the charge to the study committee, its recommendations and its rationale. Recommendations consider optimum and maximum size, students to be served, future growth, institutional planning,…

The Virginia State Council of Higher Education composed this master plan for the development of public higher education in the state for the decade 1967-77. Part I discusses the factors influencing the Plan: the college-age population growth, college attendance rate, loss of students through migration, under-educated adults, increasing…

This report was designed to assist the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education in its major study of the immediate- and long-range needs, resources, finances, and plans for higher education in Connecticut. This study is focused largely on ways of enabling higher education to facilitate the socioeconomic development of the various regions of…

Progress made during the 1973-1974 school year by the Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City and priorities for the next year are discussed. The particular areas that are focused upon are: the accountability system, expanded access, participative governance, the district master plan, and future priorities. (DB)

The results of a special survey conducted in New Jersey school districts indicated that 90 percent of the responding districts desired more information about comprehensive planning models and needs assessment techniques. In response to the expressed desire of respondents, this handbook presents an overview of the comprehensive planning process,…

State-wide planning toward environmental education in Hawaii was initiated by a volunteer group of citizens called The Citizen's Committee for Environmental Education. Based on their activities, this report: (1) enumerates the concerns underlying the establishment of the committee, (2) outlines the process and results of the interviews, workshops,…

Research activities, public meetings, and citizen input leading up to the development and writing of a state plan for environmental education in Michigan are reviewed in this essay. A general summary of the plan itself indicates values underlying planning activities, signals current problems and efforts, tells how the plan was developed, and…

This report is one of a series of papers on policy alternatives commissioned by the California Legislature's Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Most of the papers are directed toward synthesis and analysis of existing information and perspectives on the role of research in California. Topics cover the categories of research…

The third wave of conservation--a movement directed at improving the quality of our total environment and developing an environmentally literate, responsive, and responsible citizenry--is highlighted in this speech, serving as the basis and need for developing environmental education programs. Identifying and developing educational programs that…

During 1972-1973, the Commission on Youth Education in Environmental Conservation for the State of New York sponsored a series of six regional conferences. They were designed to explore needs and solutions in environmental education at the regional level, demonstrate the concept of total community involvement in environmental education, and…

This document presents the findings of the resource group in charge of the special needs of minority students in higher education for the master plan for higher education in the state of Connecticut. Specific areas addressed by the group include (1) equal access to higher education for minorities in Connecticut; (2) equal opportunity and the…