This study extends the literature on governing boards and organizational change by examining how governing board configurations have influenced profound organizational change in U.S. hospitals, and the conditions under which such change occurs. Hospitals governed by boards that more closely resembled a corporate governance model were more likely…

"IMHE-Info" is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme of OECD. This issue includes: (1) Tertiary Education for the Knowledge Society; (2) The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO); and (3) City-Regions in Focus. Publications of interest, IMHE News, and a calendar…

This paper examines and analyzes a Human Services reform initiative in West Virginia and shows how various components responded to the reform particularly in identity construction. The analysis used an immunological metaphor within a Foucauldian understanding of power and knowledge. The study gathered data through participant and observer…

The study sought to design a strategic planning model to be utilized in the Student Development Department at Winnipeg Bible College in Otterbourne, Manitoba. The objective of the project was to assimilate all processes of departmental planning into one comprehensive, systematic construct. Procedures involved: the collection and categorization of…

A rescheduling plan for dormitories housing the profoundly retarded is proposed which would involve reversing the sleep rhythm for some residents and allowing a large reduction in the resident attendant ratio with no increase in staff or monies and with more economical use of institutional facilities. (Author)

The colloquium on issues in university governance was organized to identify and define major governmental issues facing US colleges and universities and, following an interdisciplinary analysis of the issues, to propose solutions or to determine next steps to be taken. Explanations that emerged as to why the governance of academic institutions has…

Personal interviews with a random sample of 106 faculty members of a large midwestern university dealt with the role of faculty in decision making on academic, financial, and student affairs, personnel matters, capital improvements, and public and alumni relations. While the faculty members interviewed indicated that faculty should have a strong,…

A group of university presidents and other administrative officials met in July, 1968 to discuss the problem of crime and disorder in the US. There was an expressed need for background information that would be helpful to officials at institutions of higher education who want to develop, reexamine, or redefine a code of student conduct. This…

The first of these 4 statements suggests that faculty and student involvement in institutional governance is a learning experience which, to be effective, needs the leadership of the administration. This leadership is lacking because of administrators' concern with and protection of their authority and their attitudes, among other things. The…

This study was conducted to determine the prevalent practices of selected institutions of higher education concerning student membership on academic committees, and on certain other governing groups. Questionnaires were sent to 85 institutions and 59 were returned and analyzed. More than 85% of those that replied indicated that students serve on…

The administrative structure, organization of the faculty, and the student government at Harrisburg Area Community College (Pennsylvania) are explored in this monograph, which is the first of five studies written around the theme, "meeting the changing needs of students." Since its inception in 1964, the college has attempted to develop…

The theme of this document is that programmatic decision making can be carried out effectively only if appropriate kinds of information are made available. If an institution knows its objectives, it can define a course of action for the years ahead. Through use of a cost simulation model, it can forecast the resource implications of that plan.…

This study investigated the role of women in the administration of state universities and land-grant colleges. Findings and conclusions were based on 146 usable responses from chief officers of multi-campus institutions and 101 responses from women in top-level administrative positions. Results of the questionnaire indicated: (1) There is a…

This study discusses four states: California, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota considered by scholars to have provided their state universities with great autonomy from state government through their constitutions and matched them with four states: Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, which have distinguished universities of a similar size…

This study of the University of San Francisco provides empirical estimates for the next five years of a set of institutional variables reflecting institutional vital signs. It is intended to provide a sensitization to the fact that a time perspective is important, that the degree of fit between institutional goals and their fulfillment is a…