The process used by Eastern Washington University's business school in formulating and implementing a comprehensive five-year development plan is described. (MSE)

The University of Tasmania's Computing Policy Committee's efforts to introduce technological change at the institution in a rapid and controlled manner in the last five years are described, and the likely progress of information technology and its impact on higher education institutions are discussed. (MSE)

Ron Lippitt discusses the possibility of using community development theories and strategies as a research perspective for studying new ways to govern and manage community colleges. Contrasts community development and organizational development, identifies key reference sources, and highlights strategies that might lead to productive start-ups and…

To overcome adversity in higher education's newly competitive world, colleges will need (1) clear purpose; (2) courageous leadership, with the abilities to plan, innovate, take risks, and inspire; and (3) a measure of good fortune. (Author/MSE)

The executive director of the Council of Educational Facility Planners, retiring after 17 years, views the biggest change in the educational planning field as the shift from a "bricks and mortar" mentality to a process that includes the users of the learning environment. (MLF)

Presents eight noninstructional strategies for improving employees' performance in any organization. These alternatives to instruction include job redesign and reassignment, recruitment, organizational development, facilities and tool redesign, incentive and feedback systems, and provision of a strong rationale for the desired performance so…

Characteristics of science are explained through a historical and a functional approach. Indicates that science works successfully toward traditional goals because individual and group goals tend to coincide, and that competition between individual scientists contributes to the functional organization of science. (DH)

Points out that change in English departments will have the best chance if it comes through explicit analytic and goal- and strategy-mapping efforts; through open and sympathetic acknowledgment of anxieties, fears, and objections; and through the greatest possible clarification of misperceptions. Describes several models of change. (EL)

Traces the emergence and development of an Israeli protest movement--the mainly slum-based Black Panthers--its politicization, and its decline. Looks at this development and the issues raised by the Panthers against the backdrop of the conflictual relations in Israeli society. (RDN)

It should not just be the concern of the international management educators to identify which management theories and approaches are able to "travel" and be transferred from one culture to another. There is a very strong link, in practice, between national culture--which is the focus of this article--and organizational culture. (SSH)

Describes the history of NCTE's positions in educational concerns and asks whether it will survive in the future with significance as an organization. (CRH)

Effective education depends on cooperative efforts at all levels of schooling and a bold insistence on progressive organizational power structures. (JW)

Quality of Work Life (QWL) is involvement. It brings employees, unions, and management closer together for their mutual benefit. QWL implies a philosophical change in some basic and long-standing rules of behavior for unions as well as management. (SSH)

Author states that: "What seems to be needed is an integrative, practible approach to both liberal learning and professional preparation" in order to educate people to participate in practical affairs in ways that will make a difference in the society around them. (Author/RW)