This document consists of ten guides on Solid Waste Management to assist local elected and appointed policy-making officials. They are entitled: Areawide Approaches; Legal Authority, Planning, Organization Design and Operation, Financing, Technical and Financial Assistance, Citizen Support, Personnel, and Action Plan and Bibliography. The guides…

This handbook for administrators presents six articles dealing with black colleges and federal relations. The articles concern institutional coordination of proposal preparation, the role of the federal relations officer, the federal relations officer and academic planning, the federal relations office management and records, and federal resources…

This document reports the results of a New York State survey undertaken to determine if school districts invested all available funds not needed to meet immediate operating expenses and if interest rates on their investments were competitive with rates generally available for comparable investments at the time of investment. Findings indicate that…

This report attempts to cut through the rhetoric of both the opponents and the proponents of performance contracting and to bring the main issues into focus. The report (1) describes different kinds of contracts; (2) discusses testing problems; (3) gives a description of the Texarkana and Banneker elementary school projects; (4) provides sample…

In recent years there has been considerable effort devoted to the development of systems models and programs that would assist college and university administrators in obtaining and analyzing data about internal operations. Such management data presumably would be helpful in decisionmaking. In this document an effort has been made to provide a…

A conceptualization of statewide planning for postsecondary education is proposed in this document that builds on fundamental notions of objectives and decision. Perhaps its principal virtue is that it provides a basis for analyzing and relating both operational problems and organizational issues. Analysis of the problems and decisions that face…

This manual consists of a compilation of California State College guidelines and recommendations relevant to external degree programs. Sections in the manual refer specifically to: (1) procedures to be followed by the Commission on External Degree Programs in acting on proposals received from the colleges; (2) criteria to be utilized by the…

The purpose of this brief guide is to assist managers in the process of selecting personnel to fill training vacancies. It describes key steps in the selection process and provides a means for accomplishing these steps in a systematic fashion; however it is not intended to make selection decisions or to supersede personnel regulations. Three major…

This guide presents a flexible model for public involvement that was developed by bringing together a variety of materials and findings previously developed on public participation techniques. Many of the model's components are based on findings of a lengthier related study entitled, "Social, Environmental, and Attitudinal Factors Associated with…

The author, an in-service planner, tells of the four main complaints his teachers have about in-service programs: irrelevance, presenters, loss of time with students, and locations. For each problem at Redondo Union High School in California, he explains the solution. (SJL)

The author suggests a simple three-stage model as a guideline for systematic curriculum evaluation: evaluation of goals; collection, organization, and analysis of data; and decision making. (Author)

Basic recommendations for the principal attempting to establish productive community relationships. (Author/MLF)

Guidelines and suggestions are offered for successful school assemblies. The school assembly should be a positive event; an occasion for developing unity, group loyalty, and desirable audience habits. (Author/MLF)

Selects three main concepts developed by Downey (EJ 170 991) and Wright (EJ 170 992) on education policy-making and suggests a perspective administrators might take in preparing for a new role. (Editor/RK)

Presents guidelines a day care director can use to evaluate the need for a computer for his or her center. (Author/BB)