Identifies the major developmental issues faced by students participating in interscholastic athletics, such as identity formation, becoming personally competent, developing interpersonal relationships, and planning for the future. Suggests ways in which counselors can assist them in mastering age-appropriate developmental tasks. (JPS)

Discussion of planning organization design within the higher education environment stresses the goal of integrating structure and process to maintain stability while increasing organizational flexibility. Considers organization culture, organization structure and processes, networked organizations, a networked organization in action, and personal…

Offers guidance for a college or university's investment committee on management of endowment funds. Considers traits of a good committee, the importance of long-term planning, the role of consultants, the important role of the committee chair, and the need to monitor professional managers' performance. (DB)

Uses the University of North Carolina (Charlotte) to illustrate one method for linking the campus strategic planning process with collection and use of assessment information and annual reporting procedures. Stresses the importance of requiring objectives and goals to be explicitly enunciated and the collection of outcome indicators in a…

Discussion of asset allocation for college/university endowment funds focuses on three levels of risk: (1) the absolute risk of the portfolio (usually leading to asset diversification); (2) the benchmark risk (usually comparison with peer institutions; and (3) personal career risk (which may incline managers toward maximizing short-term returns,…

Being able to anticipate future needs for health services presents a challenge for health planners. Using existing population projections, two models are presented to estimate the demand for hospital beds in regions of Manitoba in 2020. The first, a current-use projection model, simply projects the average use for a recent three-year period into…

The lack of legal recognition of same-sex couples can leave partners vulnerable in a crisis or emergency. Advance planning is one strategy couples can use to establish legal rights. Analyses of data collected from both partners in 131 same-sex couples suggested that executing advance-planning documents (wills, powers of attorney for finance and…

A number of recent studies have found that objects are named more slowly in the context of same-category items than in the context of items from various semantic categories. Several experiments reported here indicated that this semantic effect is relatively persistent because it was essentially unaffected by the presence of interspersed filler…

Context: Since the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, rural hospitals have struggled with the need to strategically adapt to an abundance of changing reimbursement and regulatory programs, as well as to respond to the needs of an increasingly frail elder population in need of postacute and long-term care (LTC). Purpose: This article has 2…

This guide presents principles of person-centered planning, an approach to organizing and guiding community change in alliance with people with disabilities and their families and friends. The approach focuses on the individual's desired future, his or her present reality, necessary services, and currently available community resources. Individual…

At the beginning of each fiscal year, the staff of the California Postsecondary Education Commission develops its plans for major research studies and other projects over the year, and brings the resulting workplan to the Commission for discussion. This report is the staff's plan for these activities during fiscal year 1992-93. After an…

At the beginning of each fiscal year, the California Postsecondary Education Commission staff develops its plans for major research studies and other projects over the year, and brings the resulting workplan to the Commission for discussion. This report is the plan for these activities for the balance of this decade and it identifies priorities…

This journal presents different views from members of the International Network of Principal's Centers on the importance of and different ways to create a vision for schools. The six parts of the journal outline reasons for creating a vision as part of every school's and community's work. Part 1 includes essays on why a vision for education must…

Findings of a literature review of school policies and procedures for school-based responses to death-related crises are presented in this paper. A rationale and guidelines for policy development and examples of practices for dealing with death-related incidents--such as suicide, homicide, drug overdose, and accidents--are described. Following an…

This is the final report of the Guam Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services (GGCLIS), 1990. Approximately 160 delegates, representing library and information professionals, active library supporters, territorial and federal government officials, and the reading public, gathered together to develop recommendations for the…