Summarizes responses which support or oppose a proposal to change the name of Future Farmers of America and provides implications of these responses. (SB)

Project Focus, a W. K. Kellogg supported project, has resulted in recommendations for change designed to improve the usefulness of the American Association of Junior Colleges. (MB)

Organization development (OD) is a new and fundamental concept of an organization as an inclusive system for the application of systematic development steps. (NL)

The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation now has a Dance Division. (GC)

Describes present administrative structure in large public universities based on data collected from 54 of the 63 state-supported universities with more than 10,000 students, and states urgent need for new, efficient forms of administrative organization of a university or any unit within it. (IR)

Library personnel improve intercommunication via autonomous committee management. (MF)

Presents a study of the causes leading to the adoption of commission and managerial administrative structures and their subsequent abandonment by 267 of America's largest cities during the period 1900-1942. Event-history methods of analysis are used. (Author/AM)

In order to use power, human resources development practitioners must first differentiate it from authority and understand its purpose. The three keys to power are engineering collaboration, brokering knowledge, and managing consequences. (SK)

Examines the limitations of present systems of management development, with particular attention to the problems caused by increasing organizational and occupational change and fluctuation. Availability: M.E.A.D. Subscriptions, C.S.M.L., University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YX, England. (SK)

Student participants at two universities played multisession simulation games involving the development of 18 organizations. Post-session surveys of 583 participants indicated that organizational effectiveness became more important to participants as the organizations developed. This suggests that future organizational effectiveness studies should…

The purposes, structure, and component parts of the newly formed Department of Education (ED) organizations from which educational research programs will be administered are discussed. As the climate surrounding ED changes, opportunities to take advantage of the elevated status of research will be presented. (Author/RL)