Persons with profound and multiple disabilities (PIMD) are dependent on staff to be sufficiently knowledgeable as to provide them with appropriate day services. One important determinant of the appropriateness and adequacy of a day support program is the level to which staff have detailed and specific knowledge about the functional abilities and…

The handbook was developed by the staff of the Volunteers in Partnership with Parents Project (VIPP) and is intended for volunteers in the VIPP program in which people are trained to offer support and caregiving assistance to parents of young handicapped children. The partner's roles and responsibilities with parents are listed as well as those…

The judgmental policies of campus ministry held by campus ministers at state-supported universities were studied. The campus ministers were grouped according to the campus minister's ministry group, years of personal campus ministry experience, size of student body, campus minister's position at the school, and the campus minister's age by decade…

Using a new type of management called consultative, with data available from library-wide automated systems providing the basis for use and user surveys and analysis, each professional librarian participates in the decision-making and problem-solving functions within the library organization at the University of Guelph, Ontario Library. (Author/PF)

The traditional model of a profession is shown to be deficient in several ways, and a new model is developed based on the ideas of general systems theory. (PF)

The goal of this panel was to explore the functions and roles of all personnel involved in new instructional systems which bring to bear advances in learning research and instructional technology. Five "approaches" for achieving this goal arose out of a discussion of the many problems involved in the design and implementation of new instructional…

This study defines the role of the education-industry planning consultant. The planning consultant is envisioned as an independent agent who will be concerned with improving the interaction among school districts and the education industry through facilitating the use of comprehensive, long-range planning. He is seen as functioning to provide a…

At the present time, there is wide diversity among the 50 states with respect to state level coordinating and control agencies for junior colleges. To provide an overview of the composition of these agencies, the authors compiled summary data from 27 states having staffs that deal exclusively or primarily with the problems of coordinating and…

In an effort to apply modern management techniques to the Columbia University Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries sponsored a study which called for restructuring the libraries to underscore functional relationships. The report of that study was reviewed by the libraries' administration and staff, and reorganization plans were made…

This prototype of a guide for educational change agents focuses on the roles and tactics of personnel employed in nonprofit educational research and development organizations and in state and intermediate education agencies. Included is a compilation of reports from recent users of three classes of tactics: information, demonstration, and field…

This paper describes the traditional role of the college student teaching supervisor, makes some observations concerning this role, and suggests a new role. The author makes the following observations about the traditional role: (a) it implies that the college supervisor can best contribute to teacher education by observing and then holding…

A school budget is a carefully drawn plan to allow for the efficient educational operation of the school. Everyone connected with the management of an independent school has something to learn about a budget, the most obvious person being the new headmaster. Similarly, all department heads, the librarian, the athletic director, the members of the…

A study to provide an empirically based conceptualization of the state directors of community junior colleges and their staffs was conducted. A questionnaire to provide information on the administrators was mailed to the state directors of 48 states. Questions concerned the length of time the director had been in office, the place where the…

This essay is in two parts. The first section contains information about teacher aides, based on experience in the United States and Canada. Aides are becoming increasingly popular in both countries. Their effect on schools is generally to allow a redistribution of teacher time, to increase teachers' job satisfaction, and to increase teacher…

The quality of library service in biomedical institutions ultimately depends upon basic unit librarians. Although the hierarchy is necessary, it can only have as much real authority and cooperation as institutions vest in it by their degree of understanding and sense of personal worth. Vital to this is the local peer groups, which serves two basic…