The rapid rate of technological development and the growing complexity of our society in recent years have renewed the awareness of the importance of higher education. The rapid expansion of the size of higher educational institutions as well as the increased demand for instructional quality emphasize the need for systematic and efficient resource…

Focusing on continuing education in France, this report discusses various aspects and issues of long range planning (through the 1970s and 1980s), then proposes arrangements for a nationwide system entailing community education, educational broadcasting, local facilities, employee education, and other adult education services. Educational…

The Colorado Commission on Higher Education was created in 1965 to help provide a unified and long-range view of higher education in the state and help devise a structure of higher education that would be responsive to a changing educational system, social needs and pressures. This report, which reviews the history and functions of the Commission,…

Requirements of a comprehensive approach to adult and continuing education in Quebec are set forth, with particular attention to individual and social needs in a changing world as well as to short-and long-range educational objectives. Proposals are offered for serving the unemployed and other groups, reshaping content and methodology, allocating…

This collection of papers by nine different authors focuses on the following topics related to the school principal; administrative change, decisionmaking, educational planning, communication strategies, and evaluation. A main theme is that the principal's role has become highly complicated, that there is some disagreement as to the precise nature…

As one part of PROJECT DESIGN, funded under ESEA Title III, a model of a guidance program that would integrate guidance efforts in the development of a long-range master plan of education for an urban school system is constructed and used as a standard of comparison for the present model in use at the Fresno City Unified School District. In the…

After recognizing that the undergraduate student body at Columbia is outstanding, this report outlines some of the deficiencies in the College and suggests improvements. Shortcomings include: (1) understaffing and underbudgeting of the University's central administration and the central administration's remoteness from students, faculty, alumni,…

The Academic Development Plan II of the University of Hawaii is designed to guide the operations of the University through the academic and fiscal year of l974-l975. It commences with background information and a brief historical look at the university. In Part I the University at large is discussed. This includes the problems of (1) centralized…

This special study of higher education in the Boston metropolitan area was one of several efforts to evaluate the present total system of higher education in the state. These studies will be the bases for the formulation of a comprehensive state plan for public higher education. The purpose of this study was (1) to develop reasonable estimates of…

Five speeches presented at the 41st annual meeting of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, October 1964. Of particular interest are the results of a survey of 390 graduate schools, colleges or departments of education seeking information on the courses offered and scope of training given school plant planning specialists. (FPO)

The Detroit Institute of Technology (DIT) consists of 3 colleges, 1 each of liberal arts and sciences, business administration, and engineering. The report recommends a year-by-year plan for the Institute's development, based on the assumptions that a war will be avoided in the years ahead, that the national economy and several segments of the…

The sixth volume of "Designing Education for the Future" series, a project initiated by eight state departments of education and supported by the U.S. Office of Education. This volume presents 34 papers in which 39 authorities from education and industry discuss the contributions that modern technology can make to educational planning, research,…

Educational planning is defined as the exercising of foresight in determining the policy, priorities, and costs of an educational system, having due regard for economic and political realities, for the system's potential for growth, and for the needs of the country and of the pupils served by the system. As related particularly to an educational…

Mathematical model building for educational planning in this country has been heavily influenced by the USOE DYNAMOD Model, a computerized Markov-type or input-output model. However, the input-output method is structurally inadequate to reflect the true behavior of the educational system. To introduce some elements of decision making into the…

Three major presentations made at an October 1968 conference at Hartland, Michigan, for public school administrators and university professors are "The Systems Movement and Educational Administration," by Glenn L. Immegart; "Cost-Utility Analysis and Educational Decision-Making," by Austin D. Swanson; and "Educational…