Discusses future problems and changes coming for higher education. Considers lessening financial support, decreasing enrollments, open admissions and changing patterns in college attendance plus the new learner, federal intervention, unionization, affirmative action, and women's new roles. (Author/EJT)

Examines the plight of two troubled bookstores, both state system stores with state charters as nonprofit corporations, probing some of their weaknesses, failures, and resultant difficulties and the positive action, including structural change and new management, involved in recovery and restoration of adequate operating funds. (JT)

Development in the study of organizations and needs for additional research are addressed. It is suggested that when goals are not achieved, an organization searches for new alternatives and new information. When aspirations are achieved, the search for new alternatives is assumed to be modest, slack accumulates, and aspirations rise. It has been…

Research on the use of knowledge resources in school improvement efforts explores the ways in which new ideas, programs, practices, materials, and technologies become incorporated into the operations of the nation's elementary and secondary schools, and examines the changes these organizations undergo in the process. Attempts at disseminating…

The high priority placed on staff development by business and industry has not been shared by the community college which has tended to seek talents outside the institution rather than to develop those within. Community college staff development programs are usually designed to improve job performance rather than to enhance employee growth and…

Providing comprehensive services for the elderly in local communities presents planners and potential users with a complex set of problems. The development of new or expanded service to the elderly was examined within an ecologically informed resource dependency model to assess the effect on service expansion of organizational maintenance factors…

Student transfers from school to school at the elementary and secondary levels have been increasing for many decades. A proposed typology of major school transfer flows distinguishes between "systemic" transfers, caused by changes in school structures, and "individualistic" transfers, caused by family or individual changes. Within this typology,…

Research suggests that effective organizational change must be led by line personnel rather than by outside consultants. The Performance Management Program (PMP) implemented in two Bell Telephone companies is a line-led, self-help program in which managers participate in problem-solving activities within their own jobs. Marketing and sales…

The process by which managers come and go in large organizations is thought to have significant effects on organizational performance. To investigate the effects of managerial succession on organizational performance, measures of organizational performance were collected from 60 Army battalions and analyzed according to how closely each…

Increasing school violence and vandalism, in Philadelphia and nationwide, require discussion of the likely causes and of new solutions. Crime in schools is extensive, according to the national Safe School Study. Philadelphia data show that school crime there increased from 1975 to 1980 in seven out of ten categories. The authors of the Safe School…

Because a main educational function is to prepare children for workplace roles, education's organizational forms and functions tend to correspond to those of the workplace. For instance, as the U.S. economy moved from agricultural through industrial to service bases, U.S. education moved from nonpublic schools to public schools to mass higher…

Using team management in school district administration requires compromises on the part of the board, the superintendent, and the other team members, but advantages can result. Better quality decisions, higher staff morale, greater support for decisions, and more efficient management are among the potential benefits. The first step in development…

The "Hip Pocket Guide Trainer's Handbook" offers a training design, suggested procedures, and a complete set of materials for conducting a workshop or training program on planning and evaluation using the "Hip Pocket Guide to Planning and Evaluation" as a participant workbook or text. The training design incorporates a variety of active learning…

The focus of this volume is upon the changes that are needed in teacher education programs to address the process of mainstreaming handicapped children. The authors of the papers presented are associated with Deans' Grants Projects. The first section presents an overview of past and present special education services and advances a philosophy for…

Reviewed in this document are the University of Hawaii's reorganization of its Laboratory School and the resulting program which focuses on curriculum research and development rather than preservice teacher training. The history behind the change, and specific changes in school organization, size and composition of school population, faculty…