Results of a case study of collaborative decision-making involving administrators, citizens, and staff show that the process, while not fully collaborative, did increase both citizen participation and community acceptance of subsequent decisions. School board members and administrators in an upper-middle-class Midwest district, faced with…

Seven author contributed chapters provide information for designing and administering an early childhood education program to Black exceptional children, taking into consideration the issues such as barriers and issues as growth in mental health problems, diversity of backgrounds, and need for successful parent participation. Chapters have the…

During the twentieth century a movement may be seen toward the delegation of control in college and university governance by governing boards to faculties. By the 1960's, joint effort or shared authority had been achieved on a limited number of campuses, and sought increasingly on others. However, several concomitant developments occurred. The…

The need to focus upon the organizational factors and consequences of a technological innovation is discussed and the outcome of the pilot implementation of the Academic Unit Planning Manual (AUPM) are reported. The primary intent of the AUPM, a tool developed at the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS), is to assist…

This document contains presentations made at a conference which was held to address problems and concerns of professional staff members working with minority students in predominantly white colleges. Issues addressed include: (1) the validity of minority student programs at predominantly white institutions; (2) budget justification for minority…

A study was conducted of state postsecondary education planning commissions created by the Higher Education Act of 1965, Section 1202. The primary objective was to investigate positions expressed by commission members on issues of importance to postsecondary education. It also undertook to relate available objective factual data regarding the…

These ten guidelines offer approaches for the development and implementation of multicultural materials. The approaches reflect the cooperative, shared roles of administrators, teachers, and parents in a school and community. Steps one and two involve identifying a core planning team and participants. Steps three and four identify strategies for…

To compete for dwindling numbers of traditional college-aged students and to attract non-traditional clientele, community colleges are becoming increasingly involved in marketing. Commitment to a total marketing concept requires institutional research to identify the college's mission, potential students, and the competition. Those in charge of…

The ambiguities and controversy associated with long-range planning in higher education are discussed from the perspective of academic deans of schools of nursing. It is suggested that declining enrollments, increasing costs, and intense competition for survival among higher education institutions demand the formulation of explicit goals and…

GREENBURGH DISTRICT 8 IS LOCATED 25 MILES NORTH OF NEW YORK CITY IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, WITH A POPULATION OF 12,000, 2,500 ARE SCHOOL PUPILS. RACIAL POPULATION IS 35 PERCENT NEGRO, 65 PERCENT WHITE. A WIDE RANGE OF RELIGIONS, NATIONALITIES, EDUCATIONAL LEVELS, AND ECONOMIC LEVELS IS EVIDENT IN THE COMMUNITY. THE FIRST NEGRO MEMBER OF A SCHOOL…

AT A WORKSHOP ON TEACHER-ADMINISTRATOR-SCHOOL BOARD RELATIONSHIPS HELD OCTOBER 12-15, 1966, AT HUDSON, WISCONSIN, MAJOR PRESENTATIONS CONCERNING COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN EDUCATION WERE MADE BY FIFTEEN AUTHORITIES. THESE HAVE BEEN COMBINED INTO 12 CHAPTERS--(1) "THE LAW PERTINENT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE U.S.," (2) "THE LAW…

RACIAL STRIFE, POPULATION MOBILITY, CHRONIC UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN DECAY, AND OTHER CURRENT ISSUES WHICH AFFECT THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESSES OF LARGE CITIES WERE DELINEATED IN A SEMINAR TO PROVIDE WORKABLE PROPOSALS, GREATER COMMUNICATION, AND UNDERSTANDING AMONG SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS WHO MUST DEAL WITH THESE PROBLEMS IN THEIR DAY-BY-DAY OPERATIONS.…

This is the eighth of eight volumes consisting of series of publications of the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults (CSLEA), such as Notes and Essays, Research Reports, Occasional Papers, and Conference Reports. These materials provide both theory and practice in the area of non-credit adult liberal education offered by colleges…

In 1964 the island of St. Lucia began the St. Lucia Mathematics Program, a five-year program designed to develop materials and a primary level program of modern mathematics for use in the English-speaking Caribbean territories. Representatives from the ministry of education, the teachers' college, and the University of the West Indies Institute of…

Responses to a series of five group interviews and questionnaire surveys provide the basis for this study of the effects of declining enrollment on Ontario's curriculum. The supervisory personnel in the sample identified six factors in curriculum planning that would be influenced by declining enrollment: teachers, line administrators, curriculum…