This report discusses the growth, administration, research facilities, and educational activities of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in India. (PG)

A study of attitudes and opinions of staff personnel of Indiana University, as a sample population, regarding the possibility of their participation in the governance of a university. (Author)

The public university will have to become responsive to a wider range of economic interests and a more diverse pattern of ethnic backgrounds. (Editor)

Study of the inclusion of students on boards of trustees. (IR)

Institutions of higher education have outgrown their traditional organizational structure and greater influence and personal contact must be promoted between student-faculty-administration representatives. (Editor/IR)

Author concludes that financial aid to students is fundamentally more sound than general institutional support. (Editor)

Examines the reactions of three San Francisco (California) hospitals to the 1975 doctors' strike. Analyzes the anticipatory, responsive, and readjustment phases of the hospitals' adaptations in terms of each hospital's previous market strategy, organizational structure and ideology, and deployment of slack resources, including financial, human,…

Research was conducted from the viewpoints of students, teaching staff, and industry in relation to mathematical abilities of students taking hotel, catering, and institutional management courses, content and structure of Higher National Diploma and Final Membership courses, industrial applications, and learning strategies. (CT)

Sociometric analysis, using job similarity, task influence, and work interaction instruments, can be used to collect and feed back information for better understanding of the functioning of specific organizations. (JD)

Examines the dangers of the transfer of business theory to educational management. Questions why education has increasingly turned to business practices for its management theory and examines ways in which schools may differ from other organizations. Indicates those practices that merit transfer and those that have little or no merit. (KO)

Discusses the need for intellectual honesty in using technology. Topics include intellectual property laws; ethics; indirect results of copying software and images; the need for institutional policy; and the provision of facilities and resources that encourage respect for policy. A sidebar provides "A Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for…

Discusses a shift in administration and decision making at colleges and universities since 1975 towards substantially more use of data and analysis to respond to such constituencies as federal agencies, state legislators, students, and donors. Urges the use of research to respond to new policy questions, such as appropriate rates of withdrawal…

Describes a remedial approach in two community colleges that avoids the stigma attached to remedial courses. Analyzes interviews with staff and students. Evaluates institutional procedures. Discovers this approach inhibits and delays students' awareness of their remedial status, causes them to misjudge their prospects, and prevents them from…

IMHE-Info is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme. This issue includes: (1) How Do Rankings Impact on Higher Education?; and (2) OECD International Assessment of Higher Education Outcomes. IMHE News, publications of interest and upcoming events are included.