This document reports on a cooperative academic planning and curriculum development workshop. Section A, plenary sessions on curriculum change and improvement, presents workshop reports concerning black college survival and academic planning for science on the local and national level. Section B, seminars on educational systems, concerns a task…

The published statements, reports, books, and other studies of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education constitute a small library on almost every issue, type of institution, and specific problem of higher education. This book fulfills the definite need for a convenient single-volume guide to the Carnegie Commission's publications. The author…

In 21 reports issued over the span of almost six years, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education has made available a massive resource of information for policymakers in colleges and universities, government agencies, and philanthropic and business organizations. The Commission has also offered nearly 300 individual recommendations for…

Virtually every profession has adopted a special vocabulary and style of communication which tends to be incomprehensible to persons outside the profession. The special vocabularies serve the professions well--until it comes time to communicate with "outsiders." Then, the professional jargon must be translated into "universal…

There is no easy way to reduce the size of a college without destroying it. The author of this speech presents a prelude about Augustana College up to and including its 1969 budget crunch, then describes the procedures that Augustana has followed these past 4 years to solve these problems, and finally draws from its experience 9 propositions to…

The educational sociologist has a major contribution to make to educators with regard to preparation of curriculum materials, teaching strategies, and guidance policies. Some areas of educational management that have sociological implications are a) discrepancies among views concerning the role of the school in society and its influence on social…

Plans are being developed for a complete refocusing of educational curricula for the goal of career education. Goals for career education at present include: extended educational opportunities from cradle to grave: preparation for successful working careers; each course giving emphasis to its contribution to a successful career; hands-on…

Montana's three private colleges in a long and continuous tradition play a truly significant role in higher education of the state, just as private or independent colleges have done in the rest of the nation. It is imperative for the nation and the state to recognize and appreciate the kind of contribution that independent higher education…

Most of the recent expansion in public higher education can be attributed to demands for increasing the variety and number of educational programs, demands stemming from rapid population growth, and a clamor for innovation and alternatives in education. In meeting these demands, particularly in an environment of economic growth and an atmosphere…

This book, divided into four sections, looks at growth and no-growth positions in a future society. Section one deals with ways of looking at the future and concludes with an effort to look at the methodology of futurists and to describe how they work. Section two addresses practical questions faced by colleges of education concerning supply and…

The theme of this document is that programmatic decision making can be carried out effectively only if appropriate kinds of information are made available. If an institution knows its objectives, it can define a course of action for the years ahead. Through use of a cost simulation model, it can forecast the resource implications of that plan.…

The preliminary plan for the National Institute of Education (NIE) was sent to 492 persons in the field of education in order to elicit reaction to the plan. This document summarizes the 171 replies received by the NIE planning group, according to the categories of concerns raised by respondents. Editorial comments are included, as well as issues…

The planning technique or device, regardless of its degree of sophistication, is only a tool and cannot be substituted for effective managers. The planning process must be an integral part of the entire management process, which often evolves over many generations of trial and error. The function of planning and management entails the continuous,…

This report contains a collection of papers concerning institutional research for stabilizing and declining enrollments which were presented at the 1973 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Annual Forum in Vancouver, B.C. in May 1973. The topics include the role of institutional research in the planning process; enrollment projection…

This study discusses four states: California, Colorado, Michigan, and Minnesota considered by scholars to have provided their state universities with great autonomy from state government through their constitutions and matched them with four states: Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Wisconsin, which have distinguished universities of a similar size…