The product of a combined consultant approach to library evaluation, this report provides an intensive, detailed evaluation of current library conditions, comparison with national norms and peer university libraries, and projections of alternative options for collection growth, user facilities, and staff development translated into building…

The strategy-oriented planning process used at Cuyahoga Community College (CCC) is described in this paper. After providing background on CCC, its enrollments, service area, annual fiscal responsibility, and long commitment to educational planning, the paper identifies five key areas for planning in the coming decades: (1) technological…

Identification of problems encountered by the Office of Indian Education (OIE) and development of recommendations to improve administrative and programmatic effectiveness of OIE were goals of this study, prepared by a team from the National Advisory Council on Indian Education (NACIE). Information for evaluation was obtained from 20 survey forms…

Notes on a 1980 seminar for members of statewide coordinating and governing boards are presented as part of an inservice education program. Speakers and participants spoke on such topics as the relations among universities and governments in a time of increasing accountability, institutional reactions under conditions of fiscal stress, and…

Indepth interviews were conducted with parents of moderately and severely/profoundly retarded children on the following topics: the nature of the child's retardation, services used or expected to be used, how the current program was chosen, satisfactions and dissatisfactions with these services, and the effect of having a mentally retarded child…

The objective of the mid-career faculty project was to implement and test a program of personal and professional growth for mid-career faculty members at Furman University ranging in age from 35 to 55. These faculty members constituted approximately 80 percent of the Furman faculty. Faculty who participated in the program submitted to a faculty…

A person's beliefs about the future are very powerful in shaping his or her actions. The issue of what image of the next 10 years is most appropriate for educators today can be examined metaphorically with differing visions of what education can become. By using a series of predictions and by consolidating forecasts from futures research,…

Presented to the first session of the advisory committee on Regional Co-operation in Education in Asia and Oceania, this report summarizes the preparatory studies and reflections on the scope and design of the Asian Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) future programs, as discussed by a group in Bangkok in April, 1980.…

This document reports the long range planning for library construction and library service improvement in South Carolina. Prepared by the state library in accordance with federal legislative requirements, it reports goals, objectives, and implementation measures in the areas of the state library agency, public library service, institutional…

This report concerns first-year activities of a study of alternative futures. The study attempted to identify major trends and possible events that could influence vocational education in the 1980s and to analyze policy issues likely to be associated with them. Following the introduction, chapter 2 addresses procedures followed in each of three…

This report describes the major approaches to participatory planning used by seven states in responding to the requirement for a three-year Adult Education State Plan of the 1978 Amendments to the Adult Education Act. (Information was collected during two visits per state to California, Delaware, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, and New…

The process of becoming a world citizen requires, as a first step, personal alienation from the cultural values and social arrangements of nation-states that stand in the way of such an effort. Three interrelated propositions underlie this thesis. First, prevailing cultural values and social arrangements severely limit opportunities for people to…

Guidelines and objectives are detailed for the initial implementation of Lorain County Community College's Long-Range Plan for 1978-83. The document first describes the planning cycle by which the five-year plan is to be updated annually and outlines eight steps to be implemented in the planning process: (1) prioritization of plan objectives by…

Found Bem's gender role classifications did not strongly predict undergraduates' future orientations regarding preferences for a professional career as opposed to home and family involvement. Subjects, particularly males, generally emphasized their own career plans ahead of those of their romantic partners, and were optimistic about their own…

Multi-campus Southern Illinois University centralized its campus-based management information centers using long-range planning through comprehensive situational analysis and critical success factors methodology. The impact of the resulting strategic directions on the planning process allowed the institution to reach its organizational goals. (MSE)