It has been proposed that much of the financial information provided by higher education institutions is often ill-suited to the needs of planning and management. Most decisionmakers, particularly those at the state and federal levels, have difficulty in relating the financial information provided them to the issues and problem areas they must…

This selected bibliography contains literature from pre- 1950-71 on educational policy making, confining itself to trends, forecasts, proposals, and recommendations. A foreward to the work gives information on coverage, categorization, observations on the literature, and recommendations for further work. Each work is presented with an annotation,…

Examined are differences of opinion among educators in regard to the value of using behavioral objectives in the classroom. Noted are objections such as that cognitive and affective goals are often difficult to describe and to assess in behavioral terms. The author concludes that both advocates and critics of behavioral objectives are involved in…

Presented in this document are the conference papers on Reform and Planning of Higher Education, held in Oxford, England, March 31-April 5, 1974. This symposium was centered on the British experience and the present state of thinking in the United Kingdom, and includes fifteen papers read by British lecturers and five by non-British lecturers that…

The stimulation of a wide-ranging conversation about California postsecondary education is a critical function of the Joint Committee on Postsecondary Education. One of the more significant topics of this conversation is planning, which is discussed in this essay. First, a framework for considering the planning process is sketched. This framework…

Problems raised and solutions proposed at a conference on improvement of education for handicapped children are extensively listed under the following categories: preparation of personnel, developing leadership and coordination of programs, research, information dissemination, scope of special education, labeling, rural area services, terminal…

In attempting to assess the current state of instructional television, this paper concerns itself first with the various distribution systems and pieces of machinery available to educators and in use across the country. It deplores the inflexibility of the American educational structure which has not yet committed itself to the full exploitation…

It is the author's view that an applied behavioral science approach to the problems of learning and instruction is fundamental to instructional technology. The systems approach may constitute the core technology around which other relevant technologies may be clustered and integrated in application. The author outlines his plan for implementation…

This report to the Illinois Board of Higher Education makes recommendations concerning the function, general locations, and initial governance of two new senior institutions in Illinois. The report also discusses the need for additional colleges, education of disavantaged youth, and continued studies of demographic growth and corresponding…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) document the reasons for the establishment of upper division institutions in the US; (2) identify the thread, if any, which ties the experience of one institution to another; and (3) examine the lessons which can be learned from the early decisions to abolish the first two years of college and to suggest…

Phase I of the Master Plan for Higher Education in Maryland sets forth an assessment of the needs for and of higher education in the state, and develops a design for meeting these needs. The purposes of the Plan are to provide for the most effective and economical use of the state's educational resources, to make the commitment of the state to…

Because of regional differences affecting higher education in Iadho, the Center for Developmen t of Community College Education examined Lewis-Clark Normal School (LCNS) and possible new facilities and programs for its area vocational-technical adjunct. Findings included (1) the legislature disregarded a 1962 recommendation that LCNS become a…

This Master Plan for the City Colleges of Chicago outlines their goals for the latter half of the 1970's. Thirty-two recommendations are made concerning six goal areas: community and people, programs, instruction, facilities, finance, and organization. Among the recommendations are the following: (1) by 1980 the city colleges should aim to serve…

This paper describes how the School of Education at Indiana University intends to take maximum advantage of available resources during the coming 5 years. It is organized around four primary functions of the School of Education and discusses how each of these functions contributes to the overall mission of the school to deal with problems of…

This paper defines an index of plan implementation and applies it to the 1960-70 educational plans of Latin American countries. Before the index is applied, variations in the value of the index are studied, with reference to the characteristics of the departments of educational planning, and the coordination of these departments with the central…