This national survey on the extent and nature of mental health coverage within health maintenance organizations covers staffing and referral patterns, service locations, and other administrative functions of mental health coverage in prepaid health insurance programs. (Author/LAB)

Provides a historical perspective on archival automation and an overview of the management, planning, staffing, and user considerations that arise as a consequence of automation. Future technological developments are summarized. (41 references) (MES)

The Cooperative College Development Program (CCDP) began in 1965 to train inexperienced development officers in management development and to help generate activities such as community and alumni annual giving on the campuses of its 23 member institutions. In 1967, CCDP conducted a workshop, with emphasis on the team approach to fund-raising, for…

The Task Force on Student Representation of the University of Minnesota recommended that 75 student representatives be added as voting members of the University Senate, and that the 62 student senators from the Twin Cities campus also serve as voting members of the Twin Cities Assembly. The memorandum sets forth reasons why these constitutional…

The author feels that it is necessary to reconsider the makeup of "communities" that form community college districts and to reorganize the boards of trustees that govern the colleges. The boards should more truly represent the people whom the colleges serve, in fact including the students, faculty, and administrators of the colleges. Communities…

Administrative human service units require an information system that supports decisions regarding case management, treatment planning, monitoring, and evaluation. An integrated information system that utilizes a relational database for both direct practice and administrative decision making is described. (Author/ABB)

IMHE-Info is the newsletter published by the Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) programme. This issue includes: (1) OECD Work on Research; (2) OECD FORUM 2002: A Unique Interface Between the Public and the Ministers; (3) Viable Financial Management: A Joint IMHE-HEFCE Comparative Studies; and (4) OECD Ministerial Meeting in Paris.…

A warning against the dangers of treating an academic institution as a system susceptible of management. (Editor)

A case study of graduate education in hospital administration is presented. (12 references) (SJ)

Professional staff at an institute for juvenile delinquents report an approach which encouraged houseparents to participate in program planning and to use their creative potentiality. This resulted in houseparents encouraging boys in their charge to do the same. (NH)

Decisions affecting individual lives and commitments should be made in the smallest units, while logistics and support services should be tapped into regional and nationwide networks. (Editor)

Administrators wishing to consult for institutional change must be able to negotiate political and ethical quagmires or risk seeing their goals (and themselves) slowly sinking. This article presents the ecological perspective, professional and ethical issues in environmental change, and the participatory perspective of the student services…