IN A SURVEY OF CALIFORNIA JUNIOR COLLEGES, APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE DISTRICTS PROVIDED COPIES OF BOARD POLICY MANUALS FOR STUDY, WHILE MOST OF THE OTHER DISTRICTS INDICATED PLANS TO DEVELOP SUCH DOCUMENTS. TYPICAL DIVISIONS OF THE POLICY MANUALS STUDIED WERE (1) INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE OF THE MANUAL, (2) ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD AND…

Among the possible procedures and devices that can sharpen government sensitivity to the needs of citizens and provide for participation in the formulation of long-range public policy, interactive computers seem the most promising. Users could make computer-based explorations of future alternatives, and then provide policy makers with a sample of…

An examination of the general uses of video in instruction helps to formulate appropriate policy for maximizing video production and use. Wide use of instructional television makes advanced knowledge more usable and increases public awareness of new discoveries, reduces the time lag between conception and application of ideas which change society,…

The document contains the twelfth statement from the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education. It calls for a strong national policy towards vocational education and emphasizes the growing importance of vocational education in manpower development and the national economy. The lack of a national policy in vocational education has created…

Private foundations have exercised a significant influence on higher education in the past and will probably continue to do so. In the future, foundations could cooperate with higher education in: bringing about a creative synthesis of the liberal arts with technology; developing the urban university; developing more effective management…

Since 1962, the Coordinating Council has annually developed recommendations for the legislature and governor of California on faculty salary increases and other benefits at the University of California and the California state colleges. Because the Council and other agencies had expressed concern about various aspects of the procedures used in…

In order to play a proper role in the making of sound academic policy, the Board of Trustees must begin by taking itself seriously, and the first place for that is the choice of its members. It is essential that some members of the Board should be present or recent members of the professional academic community--teachers, research workers,…

Higher education is part of a world that is rapidly changing. This observation is discussed in relation to a study by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems and the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education. Emphasis is placed on policy formulation and implementation at the institutional level. The…

The emphasis in this annotated bibliography is citizen participation in education in the areas of decision making, policy development, and school governance. The focus is on the public school and school system rather than on private and parochial schools. One hundred fifty books, parts of books, and published reports are annotated, together with…

This document presents a wide range of policy documents and reports determined by the American Association of University Professors. The areas of concern include academic freedom, tenure, due process, college and university government, collective representation, professional ethics, student rights and freedoms, college and university…

The purpose of this work is to provide a conceptual framework applicable to most decisionmaking systems and to propose a set of propositions drawing together work from diverse fields concerned with political behavior. In the first chapter, key concepts are distinguished and the literature bearing on the relationships among those concepts are…

The pamphlet is directed toward the new member of a career education advisory council. It explains why advisory councils are needed and why an individual should join one. An advisory council is defined as a group of persons selected to collectively advise regarding career education efforts within the community, whose members are predominantly from…

The persons who control institutions of higher education are not necessarily the presidents and governing boards of those institutions as the public may believe. The real policymaking leaders are behind the scenes in almost complete anonymity. Some of these leaders may be involved with accrediting agencies which set guidelines for institutional…

This paper presents an annotated bibliography on the topic of U.S. college and university governing boards. Extensive notes are made on 3 books in particular: College Boards of Trustees by S.V. Martorana; The Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania by Donald R. Belcher; and Memo to a College Trustee by Beardsley Ruml and Donald H.…

This paper examines the topic of policy analysis and draws upon the recently developed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Management Review and Analysis Program which is a guide to conducting a self-study of an academic library's management and organization. The program was designed by the Management Studies Office and is presently being…