The purpose of this document is to facilitate the incorporation of manpower demand information into the process of educational, manpower, and vocational education planning. The concepts of demand and the importance of using such data along with other data in human resources planning is discussed. This is followed by a detailed discussion of types…

This planning document was prepared in response to the basic responsibility of the State Board of Education regarding the planning and coordination of postsecondary education in Michigan. More specifically, it is the responsibility of the State Board of Education to develop a statewide system for collecting appropriate information from both public…

This document is an extensive annotated bibliography of institutional research, 1972-73. Contents cover goals of higher education, community development goals, spatial environments of higher education, the university, the community college, institutions of higher education within the civil government, curriculum and instruction, research,…

Expertise in the technical aspects of planning and a keen appreciation of the social factors involved are not, in themselves, sufficient for satisfactory educational planning. The plan will still not be feasible unless there is attention to a third group of factors called "practical issues", "organizational features", or…

Proposed in the Michigan legislature is the establishment of a new institution to be known as Wolverine State College: an institution without a campus or principal location. The proposed legislation articulates three distinct state policy objectives: (1) Under the umbrella of a single institution, the development of a meaningful alternative for…

This paper introduces a National Institute of Education (NIE) project that is developing new methods for assessing layman's goals for education. The project also compares those goals with the goals of the professional educators. After elaborating the rationale that has guided NIE's studies of education goals, the paper describes the assumptions…

In the wealth of documentation produced as a result of increasing pressures on local school districts to be accountable, two terms--"needs assessment" and "planning"--are bandied about most frequently. These terms are often used interchangeably and, even when this is not the case, they often represent varying shades of meaning. Such confusion in…

Texas Southern University's capacity to simultaneously conduct comprehensive academic instruction, research and development, and community service programs is evaluated in this document. Automated techniques and subjective reasoning have supplied the basis for the analyses. The major objectives of the report were to determine the resource…

Program evaluators and program managers should examine appropriate dimensions of innovations when deciding to support, accept, or reject an educational innovation. Survey questionnaires were used with 76 teachers and administrators and 65 State supervisors and local project directors of exemplary programs to obtain a list of 38…

The Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) supports policy formation at two levels. On the static level, MISOE provides managers with data about students, teachers, administrators, costs, and the social impacts of educational programs which are essential to the accurate analysis of present policy. On another level, the…

A major goal of education should be to prepare every young person leaving school to enter higher education or to enter useful and rewarding work. This is the goal of Project Trident, a comprehensive career education program being developed at Lincoln Community High School, Illinois. The project, in its planning year, is directed toward secondary…

This volume is a comprehensive reference guide to cable television technology and issues of planning, franchising, and regulating a cable system. It is intended for local government officials and citizens concerned with the development of cable television systems in their communities, as well as for college and university classes in…

The report, published by the Commission as directed by the Executive Board of UNESCO, was charged to take into consideration the formulation of UNESCO's future programs in education. This agenda item presents the comments of the Director-General, in which the origin of the Commission's work, general observations, main orientation of the report,…

The ESY Analysis Aids are a collection of materials and procedures related to and organized for use in making decisions concerning year-round school program alternatives. They are restricted largely to procedures dealing with the budgetary impact of school calendar manipulation, but can be used as a guide in monitoring progress in an ESY…

The geography of education is a field which is generally neglected by geographers, despite the large number involved in education. This paper offers a conceptual framework for such studies emphasizing educational planning. Within the area of human geography are at least three possibilities for the geography of education: the geographical…