This manual focuses attention on the problems involved in accounting for student body organization funds and offers information that may be used by school districts in establishing, reviewing, and revising fiscal policies and accounting procedures for student body organizations. It is intended that the application of the basic principles set forth…

This booklet suggests ways to conduct meetings more effectively and to the mutual satisfaction of the participants and the chairperson. The publication differentiates among several types of meetings and delineates how each should be conducted. Suggestions are made concerning attention to content and process, roles of participants, agenda…

GENERAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES TO HELP SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS PROVIDE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION FOR BOTH YOUTHS AND ADULTS ARE PRESENTED AS ANSWERS TO 38 QUESTIONS COVERING TOPICS SUCH AS (1) OBJECTIVES, (2) TYPES OF PROGRAMS, (3) TYPES OF STUDENTS, (4) PURPOSE OF EACH SUBJECT FIELD, (5) THE ROLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, (6) FEDERAL AND STATE…

The physical plant administrator manages men, money and materials to create the best possible physical environment for the educational processes at his institution. Areas of concern of the plant administrator are administration, building maintenance, janitorial services, traffic, security and safety, utilities, grounds, alterations, and…

This handbook is designed to provide local administrators with both information and guidelines for organizing, implementing, and operating local vocational education advisory councils. Following a short introduction, there is a section which briefly discusses the procedures for organizing an advisory council: formulate policy, designate school…

More college and universities are being subject to audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). When an institution is selected for audit, it will be notified, probably in writing, and contacted by a representative of the IRS, who will make arrangements for a preliminary visit to discuss the procedures to be followed. Prior to the first meeting…

The guide is intended to serve two purposes: (1) to provide information to agencies contemplating the establishment of a pre-employment training program, and (2) to assist administrative and instructional personnel responsible for such programs. Prior to publication, a tentative draft was circulated to directors of nursing in the 143 Michigan…

This booklet deals with the practical steps of educational evaluation: who should negotiate the contract? Who initiates evaluation? What are "goals process" and "parts process" and how are they matched? What are the steps in putting the process of evaluation into operation? What are the criteria for assessing observational techniques? What data…

This booklet presents concepts and applications of effective time management to help administrators learn to utilize their time most effectively, thereby accomplishing their most worthwhile objectives in the shortest amount of time. Although the booklet is designed to be self-administered, the greatest benefits should be derived in a group setting…

For the community college administrator to achieve consistently good communication, he should follow a pattern of experimentation which includes: (1) a review of past presentations, (2) inquiry following a presentation as to what information was felt to be most valuable, and (3) reevaluate the presentation. When preparing a presentation, the…

After four years of operation, the Title VIII program of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has been instrumental in reducing the number of school dropouts in target schools by 52 percent. This report describes in detail some of the successful educational practices operating within target schools in Alabama, California, Colorado,…

A manual to accompany LINC courses in communications and mathematics, containing information on background, objectives, components, individualized process, and procedures for curriculum development and implementation of LINC Program, is presented. It was formerly referred to as The LINC Program User's Manual. An appendix includes a Reading List…

This document on personnel management in higher education contains three papers that are designed to be used as guidelines for educational administrators. The first two papers, by John D. Millett, discuss the scope and problems of higher education administration and the problems associated with collective bargaining and tenure on college campuses.…

This study presents projected higher education enrollment statistics for the state of Kentucky through the year 1985. The researchers compiling the data necessarily had to base these projections on assumptions that things would continue changing at the same rate as in the past, i.e., birth rate, percent of high school graduates continuing to…

This document offers the results of a questionnaire designed to discover how the administration, staffing, and funding problems of Black Studies programs are handled at 10 major universities across the U.S. The institutions surveyed are: Atlanta, Duke, Howard, Lincoln, New York, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Yale. The organization…