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Posey, Virginia K. – 1989
The handbook is intended to provide school administrators, vocational teachers, special education teachers/supportive personnel, and guidance counselors with the basic guidelines and strategies for implementing the Individual Vocational Education Planning (IVEP) process for disadvantaged. limited-English proficient, and handicapped secondary…
Descriptors: Career Education, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Texas State Library, Austin. Dept. of Library Development. – 1988
The materials in this manual are intended to provide the introductory information needed by new system advisory council members and staff of the Texas State Library on the history, role, governance, funding, services, and administration of library systems. Included in the handbook are discussions of: (1) the role of systems in public library…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Documentation, Financial Support, Governance
Ontario Council of Regents, Toronto. – 1988
An introduction is provided to Vision 2000, a project initiated by Ontario's Minister of Colleges and Universities to review the mandate of the province's Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology (CAAT). Section 1 discusses the challenges facing Ontario's educational system, the minister's mandate to the CAAT Council of Regents, and the objectives…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment, Futures (of Society)
Lamson, Sharon L.; And Others – 1989
In the spring of 1988, the Dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Central Missouri State University (CMSU) appointed a committee to focus on the assessment of teacher education. Since then the Teacher Education Assessment Committee (TEAC) has funtioned as a dynamic operation collaborating with all colleges on the CMSU campus. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Long Range Planning, Needs Assessment
Caldwell, Roger L. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document focuses on the normal and documented activities that could be described as leading to strategic choices and implementation efforts in the Arizona universities. The strategic planning literature is…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Competition, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Austin Independent School District, TX. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1984
This mid-1984 "snapshot" of the Austin Independent School District (AISD) focuses on three areas: (1) the state of learning in AISD schools as measured by achievement test results for college bound seniors, graduates, and high achieving, average, and low achieving students; (2) the changes needed in compensatory programs for low…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1988
Prepared as an outline of the long-range South Carolina Library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on the disadvantaged, illiterate, blind and physically handicapped, persons with limited English speaking ability, the elderly, and the…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
Shelton, Aubrey W.; And Others – 1987
This study examined the impact of the Mississippi Legislative Reform Act on elementary education majors. The purpose of the study was to organize data to be used to provide short and long term program planning specifically for future elementary school teachers. Phase one of the study provided a demographic profile of students majoring in…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Education Majors, Educational Change, Educational Legislation
Larson, Jon – 1987
Initial results of the survey research phase of a 3-year study of institutional planning in higher education are presented. The Institutional Planning Project was undertaken by the National Center for Postsecondary Governance and Finance. The national survey examined administrators' attitudes on planning and their perceptions of the planning…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Planning, Community Colleges, Decision Making
South Carolina State Library, Columbia. – 1985
Prepared as an outline of the long range South Carolina library development program required by the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), this document describes: (1) the library public, with emphasis on disadvantaged, blind, physically handicapped, elderly, and institutionalized persons as well as persons with limited English speaking…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Personnel
McIntyre, Chuck – 1982
Work to develop and test new statewide planning and evaluation procedures for the California community colleges is described in this paper, which provides background information, outlines the proposed comprehensive planning process, and discusses the use of statewide priorities. A background section describes current planning and evaluation…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Planning, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, DC. – 1980
This report presents findings of the Task Force on Engineering Education which was formed under the auspices of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Section I reviews the genesis of the NAE Task Force and its charge. Section II discusses the Task Force's approach, which included a survey of engineering professionals in academia, industry,…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Engineering Education, Financial Support, Government School Relationship
White House Conference on Aging, Washington, DC. – 1981
This third and last volume of the final report of the 1981 White House Conference on Aging presents the results of a post-conference survey of delegates and observers conducted to gain insight about participants' views of Conference recommendations. Part I of the volume presents a detailed description of the methodology of the survey (coding and…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitude Measures, Committees, Gerontology
Mulcahey, Mary Ann; Warren, Steven F. – 1984
Sixty older parents were interviewed about plans for the future living arrangements of their 35 adult mentally retarded sons and daughters. Seventeen of the 35 families lived in rural communities, 18 in an urban area. Questions focused on (1) whether or not group care was perceived as an alternative to sibling care or institutional placement; and…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Services, Group Homes, Long Range Planning
Texas State Library, Austin. – 1984
This long range plan provides a framework for the establishment or expansion of programs to carry out the intent of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), P.L. 95-123, as amended, in the state of Texas. It reflects input from four major sources: policies established by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, deliberations of…
Descriptors: Library Planning, Library Services, Library Standards, Long Range Planning
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