Administrators, academic and nonacademic staff, and students in 17 institutions in Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom were surveyed for responses to hypothesized demands and constraints in administration, such as accountability, legal issues, administrative structure changes, declining enrollment, productivity. (MSE)

State program review, generally asosciated with efforts to assess quality and enforce accountability, has also encouraged the states to look beyond traditional measures in evaluating their support for and investment in higher education. When access and finance issues meet head on, quality concerns may give way. (Author/MLW)

The initiation of Public Law 94-142 has provided a variety of assurances for the nation's handicapped. This article examines these assurances and strategies for their implementation. (Author/DS)

Educational changes that need to be made over the long run involve new methods of finance combined with national minimum guidelines for educational input at the local level. In the meantime greater accountability, client payment, and private sponsorship are suggested as temporary measures. (PHR)

Considers the effectiveness of the contract of enrollment as a means of increasing institutional accountability and thereby broadening the rights of students as consumers of educational services. Available from La Verne Law Review, Inc., University of La Verne College of Law, 1950 Third Street, La Verne, California 91750; SC $3.75. (Author)

Higher education is seen as undergoing significant changes in the next decade. Some suggestions for state boards include: review of existing degree programs, reexamination of clientele, and campus closings considered on nonpolitical grounds. The "people" component of institutional budgets may have to give way to other needs. (Author/MLW)

Characteristics of evaluative studies used by California state legislators are discussed: specificity in addressing particular policy decisions; factors which contribute to or hinder the accomplishment of educational objectives; balanced studies with a range of indicators; and attention to local concerns, and to fiscal and legal issues. (MH)

Schools must accelerate the development of expertise in the area of self-governance to countermand the increasing burden of external legislative intervention. (LH)

The dangerous communication gap between the university and the public is described. Barriers to effective communication are identified and suggestions are provided for eliminating them. Barriers include failure to perform up to expectations, lack of candor, lack of systematic plan for communication, and persuasion rather than information. (MLW)

The author maintains that counselors have a professional responsibility to all school personnel by providing consultation and continuous training in all aspects of pupil analysis in order to keep accurate and helpful student records. (Author)

The increased use of assigned tasks in social work practice heightens the need for techniques that practitioners can use to enhance the likelihood that clients will adopt the desired behavior. The authors describe several techniques that have received empirical confirmation in research studies. (Author)

Although many colleges and institutions find the new legislation resulting from the consumer movement to be a threat to institutional autonomy, the author views these initiatives as encouragement to establish greater understanding in the public mind about the processes and results of postsecondary education. Ordered public disclosure may be a…

Summarizes some history concerning college programs for students with disabilities, illustrating the evolving nature of the profession. Discusses future challenges, including role stress and conflict, updating of professional standards, professional competencies, training and professional development, job functions of other professionals, and…

For any school-based-management model to succeed, the important functions of a school district's business office must be redesigned to shift authority and support for most fiscal decisions to school site. Some of the complexities of shifting the fiscal management to schools include technology, transportation, maintenance and operation, risk…

Maintains that the equal marginal value principle may not be optimal in the analysis of the cost-effectiveness of policies to reduce auto emissions, the economics of garbage disposal, and the economics of pollution abatement. Argues that examining these exceptions can help students understand the equal marginal value principle. (MJP)