Reviews several facts and fallacies concerning membership in Future Farmers of America (FFA) and suggests ways to revitalize the FFA to meet demands of an expanding membership. (SB)

Discusses two kinds of power, position power and personal power, then examines the use of both in varying situations. Examines various levels of change, from knowledge and attitude, to individual behavior and organizational performance, which are then analyzed in terms of two change cycles-participative and coerced. (Author)

Consideration by the NCTE President of the effects of social change and membership growth upon the Council. (RD)

Studies the response of 15 academic departments at Ohio State University to reorganization. Implications of the study deal with methods of introducing change, the importance of group norms, and the link between informal norms and existing formal structure. (MK)

"We of an earlier generation must constantly remind ourselves that just as the young rebels of our day are the Establishment now, so those who today strike at the pillars of society must themselves support the structure tomorrow. (Author)

Consideration by the NCTE President of the effects of social change and membership growth upon the Council. (RD)

Speech given before the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (22nd, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 1969)

Addresses the question of training transfer; i.e., transferring knowledge gained in training courses back into work situations. States that training staff should systematically analyze course content and identify recipients of proposed changes in order to help course members apply new knowledge. Lists four main practical implications to help…

Systematic change in academic systems requires internal analysis of work, belief, and authority structures. Four situations are explored in which order and disorder are in tension: between disciplinary bottom and administrative top, among administrative units, within operating levels, and over time in a reversal of orderly and disorderly…

Three institutions' planned change strategies that introduced a comprehensive array of new approaches to planning, management, communication, information and analysis, and staff development are discussed. The larger purposes of these planned change activities--educational change and institutional vitality--await future evaluation. (MLW)

A study of 65 articles from the 1981 volumes of "Administrative Science Quarterly" and "Harvard Business Review," using smallest space analysis, found that the few studies adopting subjective (instead of objective) approaches to analyzing organizational change were most likely to provide a basis for an applied administrative…

Explores the important social consequences of the Bell system's coming organizational changes as a result of the future technological confrontation and merger of computer and high-speed transmission equipment. Develops the analogy between Bell's corporate activities and brain hemisphere relationships. (PD)

Outlines the five policy imperatives of the Reagan administration for education--diminution, deregulation, decentralization, disestablishment, and deemphasis. The authors predict that education will continue to decline in importance on the national political agenda. (Author/WD)