Translating organizational Development (OD) theory into college student personnel work, the author stresses the importance of working with college students as a function of the entire setting. The counseling model has historically ignored the contextual relationship between students and environment. The article concludes by examining the skills…

Two major trends mark the transformation of industrial society into postindustrial society--increased social complexity and rapid social change. This article projects an image of social work in the future by describing some major problems people may face and presenting a model of an agency that might deal with them. (Author)

Presents a theoretical discussion analyzing and explaining the use of group methods in feeding back diagnostic data to organizations, illustrating a new peer group--intergroup model with a study of senior officers at a bank. (Author/JM)

Suggests that a rigorous comparison of expressed goals (both written and verbal) of black organizations with existing organizational designs indicates that the overall organizational structure is not only ineffective for the achievement of the expressed goals, but the overall structure is dysfunctional as well. (Author/JM)

The 45-15 plan in this California school district is educating four youngsters in a space designed for three with no overcrowding, is eliminating double sessions, and is relieving taxpayers of the immediate need to build more schools by making fuller use of schools that already exist. (Author)

Researchers at the Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration spent the 1970-71 school year conducting onsite observational studies of four schools in their first year of implementing differentiated staffing. This article describes the course of events in the schools during that year and summarizes the change problems revealed by…

Twenty-two decision groups in three manufacturing and three research and development organizations are studied to identify the characteristics of the environment that contribute to decision unit members experiencing uncertainty in decisionmaking. (Author)

This first part of a two part series describes the activity of the York County (Canada) Board of Education's Organization Development Unit, designed to provide assistance for individuals or groups so that they may improve their own effectiveness. (Author/JH)

Paper read at the American Educational Research Association Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2-6, 1970. Describes an approach to planned organizational change in school systems built on the effective features of both the open-systems approach to understanding organizations, and the T-Group-Consultant school of small group methods. (JM)

The present search and selection procedures to fill presidential vacancies serves to reduce the conflict caused by presidential succession. (Editor/IR)

Report of deliberations of fifteen scholars to explore new options and alternatives for improved institutional functioning (IR)

Explores the basic characteristics of the slum school as a social institution, and examines the relevance of sociological categories for institution building in education. (JF)

Implications of the introduction of Program-Planning-Budgeting Systems managerial techniques into the college or university. (IR)

A historical account is given of the steps preceding the 1897 reorganization of the St. Louis school board. (MF)

This article collates some of the existing notions about the outcomes of organizational activity into an output analysis framework and implications for organizational practice are drawn. (Author/MF)