The Resource Requirements Prediction Model (RRPM) 1.6 is a model by which college and university administrators might determine their own budgetary requirements at their own institutions. This document presents data concerning budgets at institutions already using RRPM 1.6. Summing all three organizational levels for all organizational units, the…

The National Seminar on Curriculum Development for Extension Workers held its first session in December 1963, and since that time there have been 9 additional meetings. This report undertakes to present an evaluation of the 10 meetings of the Seminar. A survey questionnaire was prepared and sent to 21 current or past participants and returns were…

A trio of themes--economy, efficiency, and reform in higher education--dominated the work of the Coordinating Board, Texas College and University System during the year 1970-71. The whole nature of post-high school education is changing. Post-secondary education today must not only meet the needs of students seeking traditional academic and…

A summary of an Extension Education dissertation on a study to develop a framework of curriculum and learning theory features, to determine needs of Extension agents, and to show its application to dairy science is presented. Tyler's rationale for deriving educational objectives (curriculum theory) and Bloom's taxonomy of cognitive behavior…

This monograph resulted from the initial phase of the American College Personnel Association's project "Tomorrow's Higher Education." The monograph's purposes are to: (1) look at the predictions and proposals being made for higher education in terms of their implications for student development; (2) examine student development research and key…

The Task Force reviewed literature relating to coordination and governance of higher education; identified methods used by the 50 states to secure state-wide coordination; developed criteria for evaluating these methods; and used these criteria in conducting 9 case studies. Recommendations for Missouri include the development of a coordinating…

The Environmental Education Master Plan cites eleven education needs in Colorado, general goals for meeting these needs, and specific recommendations for achieving these goals. Participants in the planning project represent a broad cross-section of interests, backgrounds, ages and geographic locations. Identification of local, regional and…

This paper describes a series of heuristic approaches to helping schools analyze problems by the use of a teletype time-sharing computer terminal. The examples detailed include 1) a Delphi exercise for students; 2) a budgeting model which examines the results of various levels of funding and of changes of relative priorities; 3) a school…

The California State University and Colleges have devised a system of academic Master Planning that allows them to design curricular models for the future while at the same time evaluating their present curricular offerings. It provides for a continual curricular evaluation cycle for each campus within the system. The materials contained in this…

The overall goal of this report is to help university administrators assess what computer-aided university planning can and cannot do for them and to arouse their interest in the application of system analysis, simulation, and computer models to university planning. The report is limited to analysis of selected examples of computer oriented…

Vocational education programs must provide for the development of competencies required by the labor market. Long-range planning is required to offset the time lags inherent in program development. This report forecasts the potential total vocational education enrollment in a statewide comprehensive school system and the potential enrollment in…

The paper urges educators to take a renewed view of the problems and implications associated with auditory impairment in the student. Helping a child learn to utilize incoming information efficiently is seen as a problem of management. The processing of auditory information is briefly considered in the determination of what is entailed in the…

This report presents the results of a community survey which attempted to determine the demand for another college in the Los Angeles Community College District. The function of this "community campus" or "external college" would be to serve members of the community who are not already served by the eight existing colleges. Questionnaires received…

The manner in which students move through the system of higher education--changing majors, leaving the system for undetermined periods and then returning, failing and repeating courses, continuing on for advanced and professional degrees--can have a significant effect on the planning and managing of institutions. The purpose of this paper is to…

This publication is a cross-section summary of the conference rather than a complete summary. Along with lists of tapes of presentations, photographs, resource addresses, and the names of those on the seminar committee is a random cross-sample of written comments. Included in the written comments are observations on existing programs, evaluation,…