This guide, focusing on participative management and the requirements of public decision-making in education, is designed as a management referent for the development and use of verifiable performance objectives. In addition to an indexed main section, the volume contains an anlysis matrix for educational objectives; formats for and examples of…

Four speeches presented at the 41st annual meeting of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, October 1964. The central organizing concept of the speeches is a comparative evaluation of two elementary schools, visited by the participants, which represent varied approaches to building design and educational planning. (FPO)

This position paper represents the consensus of the Commission on Undergraduate Education in the Biological Sciences (CUEBS) Panel on Biology in the Two-Year College. The Panel defines achievable, as well as, requisite goals and recommends methods for their implementation. Major topic headings in the pamphlet are (1) The Institution and Its…

Management is a future-oriented decision process that relates resources into a total functional system for the accomplishment of a set of objectives. As a rule, universities do not have a management system, and there is no understanding of their environments in terms of the inputs, outputs, objectives, and organizational relationships of line and…

A system for identifying, defining, and classifying vocational and technical education instructional programs offered by state and local school systems is outlined. The system consists of two main parts: Part I, Instructional Programs Related to Occupations, summarizes instructional programs and lists corresponding codes, titles, and worker trait…

This is a study of college enrollment trends in Louisiana. The rate of increase in enrollment in Louisiana's colleges and universities has been tapering off since 1964. An increasing proportion of students have been going to public rather than private schools--from a little over 50% in 1940 to 83.4% in 1968 and 1969. Fewer Louisiana students than…

This report is the first in a series by the New Jersey Board of Higher Education in an effort to develop a master plan for higher education in the state. It attempts to ascertain: (1) where the New Jersey higher education system stands at this point in time; and (2) which goals the system must strive to meet. The report contains four sections.…

A comprehensive master plan is presented for Midwest City Junior College in Oklahoma. In the presentation of an educational outline, consideration is given to--(1) institutional philosophy, (2) enrollment projections, (3) educational programs, (4) degrees and certificates, (5) staff and faculty projections, and (6) space projections. The plan for…

The objective of this study was to explicate the concept "involvement" so as to determine: (1) its range of meanings in both ordinary language and in the area of program development in adult education; and (2) how the range of meanings was used in empirical studies of a causal nature. The first task provided the basis for determining the internal…

The Academic Plan was developed to avoid unnecessary duplication of program efforts, make more efficient use of facilities and teaching staff, and insure continuing excellence of higher education in Wisconsin. The first part of the plan discusses its purposes, which include increasing educational opportunities in the state and insuring the…

The purpose of this study was to examine the decision-making processes of a university that, faced with radical changes in the external environment, was forced to make extensive internal adaptations. A case study is presented of the way in which the administration of New York University perceived and dealt with the threat to its existence posed by…

Invitations were extended to the former American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows in Academic Administration who attended a February 1974 working reunion in Lincoln Nebraska, and to the ACE Fellows in the 1973-74 Academic Administration Internship Program (AAIP) to list in this bibliography papers they prepared in conjunction with the Working…

This publication sets forth information about, and provides some concepts and techniques essential to the initiation of an educational plan. The goals describe the intended product or the direction to be taken. The study of needs and priorities provides guidance about where to start, or where to place major emphasis and resources. Indicators…

Project USHER is designed to help community colleges implement a humanistic management system. This objective is to be achieved by giving each participating college the capability to redesign its own educational system through implementing a planning, programming, budgeting, and evaluation system (PPBE) within the context of participative…

This synopsis of a symposium on priorities for research and development in education was intended as a planning report for the National Institute of Education. The members of the symposium suggested that the following research and development efforts be undertaken: a) an analysis of the data base for teacher education; b) an analysis of the…