The great area of current neglect in most college and university long-range planning activities is that of academic planning. Academic planning is the primary task of any comprehensive long-range planning in a college or university. Only when academic plans and support plans become an institutional plan can the process of implementation and the…

This booklet is designed for education association leaders for use (a) in providing sole leadership in forming citizen committees when school boards or administrators refuse to permit or encourage citizen participation, or (b) in offering guidelines to the school board or administrators in establishing effective citizen committees. The booklet is…

The increasing magnitude of the enterprise of education, the rapid growth of knowledge, the changing educational administrative requirements and challenges, and the development of new educational programs to match the range of students' diverse interests and capacities--all these challenges call for rapid upgrading of the quality and technique of…

This factbook is a pocket-sized looseleaf notebook containing blank statistical tables where data may be recorded concerning institutions. Eight major sections, which include tables, provide a place for information about the school's history, academic constituents, admissions and enrollment, academic programs, finances, physical resources, student…

The author states that "there is a sense of inevitability about the course on which higher education is set in America and that planners may be helpless to change this course; though it may, indeed probably will, be changed by the forces of society. But if it remains on the present course, what are the possible consequences?" What these…

Aspects of statewide planning are discussed from the viewpoint of an institutional administrator, a systemwide administrator, and a legislator. The institutional perspective encompasses the tri-state system and enlightened authority. The system viewpoint emphasizes the presidential stance and the legislative perspective and reviews the need for…

This is an analysis of the distinguishing features of 20 or so alternative teacher preparation programs at the University of Massachusetts, School of Education. The rationale for their existence is also presented. Programs are categorized in three ways: a) by ends and rationales, b) by motifs, and c) by programmatic components. Specific programs…

Guidelines for the operation and general structure of the middle school are set down. A general outline for school personnel is detailed, including staff such as homeroom teachers, paraprofessional school aides, administrative personnel, and grade mentors. Other aspects of the middle school discussed are curriculum planning, teacher training,…

The Academy for Educational Development was requested by the Bureau of Research in the Office of Education to look into planning for higher education in the U.S. and to make recommendations as to whether in the future some planning for higher education should be conducted on a nationwide basis and, if so, what type of organization might be…

To achieve educational improvement, educational leaders must change from being uninvolved and apathetic to being involved and concerned, and plan for the future at the same time they work out the present. A council on the development of human qualities should be created within each community. This council would include all the behavioral, medical,…

Presented in this document is the text of presentations delivered by the principal speakers at the Colloquium on Higher Education in Connecticut. The colloquium was decided on as one means of accomplishing dual goals: (1) informing the public of the Commission's program for developing a Master Plan for higher education pursuant to the provisions…

The primary focus of this study is to determine the financial condition, past and present, of the 41 member institutions of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO), and to build the best possible case for substantially increased use of these institutions by the State and by the people of Ohio. The study process…

This publication stems from a project to help teacher educators and other professionals study the Comprehensive Elementary Teacher Education Models (CETEMs) by providing information and promoting future-planning through participant examination of systematic planning techniques. The seven papers included are 1) "Teacher Education and…

A procedure is given for determining various concerns for the identification of priority needs or important problems. Chapters deal with procedures for harvesting educational concerns, illustrations of the systematic harvesting of concerns, concerns classification and analysis, and conducting the need assessment. A diagram of the procedure for…

A Career Education Document Information System (CEDIS) Project was funded September 1, 1971, for the purpose of establishing more effective communication links between the occupational educators who need to obtain new knowledge and acquire improved skills. During the first year of operation, several major accomplishments were achieved, including:…