Speculates on the contributions social science research can make to the field of domestic policy. Defines three approaches to applied social science: analysis, evaluation, and demonstrations. Recommends that present day social scientists give more attention to institutions and especially to the links between institutional and behavioral change.…

Ways that program review, budget history, and budget projections can be used to determine annual budgets for multi-college departments are discussed. A model for funding and crediting is proposed that is used to determine the proportion of the total departmental general-fund budget. (Editor/LBH)

Using survey research method, the paper examined, evaluated, and assessed the services and programs provided by a graduate and professional student organization in a Big-10 University in the US. The organization provides services to over fifteen thousand graduate and professional students and has a significant role in enhancing and improving…

In January 1997 the Institutional Research Council of the Connecticut Community-Technical Colleges was charged with developing a model for measuring system performance of the colleges. This document reflects Phase I of the process. Effective institutional research (IR) looks at resources, processes, and outputs for learners, programs, the…

This study aimed to provide systematic empirical evidence for how postsecondary institutions support and promote the use of assessment information in academic decision making. A survey instrument, Institutional Support for Student Assessment, was developed as an inventory of external influences on student assessment; institutional approaches to…

This report presents results of a survey of fund raising activities of 181 colleges and universities in North America during 1996-97. The survey was based on standards developed by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The data are presented in two parts. First, summaries of the reported data, broken down into eight…

The report summarizes the preliminary findings from the Institutional Self-Study Follow-Up Survey of the faculty, administrators, staff, and students at South Texas Community College (STCC). The follow-up study was intended to address areas that were found to be of sufficient concern in the committee reports of the original Self-Study Survey as to…

A theory of evaluation and authority is applied to the system for evaluating university faculty. Results show that professional opinion outweighs administrative opinion and that research is more important than teaching. Balancing these factors tends to dictate faculty orientation. Satisfaction with evaluation is a function of a field's dependence…

Compared relative effectiveness of two group methods of communicating information relevant to the social, vocational and educational adjustment of institutionalized male juvenile delinquents. Both treatment conditions prompted more positive attitudes, behavior change, and less recidivism among participants than did the control condition. (Author)

Research findings disclose the need for improvement of discrepancies discovered to exist between the role perceptions of faculty members and organizational goals of a Pennsylvania community college. Suggests the development of a sensitive screening instrument, or some means of educating faculty to the purposes of the 2-year college. (Author/JN)

Institutional researchers must be in the institutional planning process in the coming years if institutional research is to remain a viable administrative specialty. Politics is viewed in its purest sense as the influence individuals, organizations, or other entities have upon policy-setting and decision-making. (Author/MLW)

Presents abstracts of a sample of ERIC documents dealing with community surveys. Covers a labor pool resource survey; community needs assessment surveys; a community needs follow-up; and surveys of community attitudes toward a college's delivery systems and programs and toward continuing education. (DMM)

Report of a study of strategic planning, conducted by EDUCOM, a consortium of colleges and universities engaged in sharing educational technology applications, portrays information processing ideas, goals, and plans at 10 innovative colleges and universities. (Author/JJD)