This report by the Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education proposes to restructure middle school education (grades 6, 7, and 8) in Virginia. The restructuring process has two components: the identification of Vanguard Schools and the development and implementation of a restructuring process in other schools. Schools that seek Vanguard…

This paper reviews literature on trainee-oriented training programs, which assign to individual employees predominant responsibility for diagnosing organizational problems requiring changes in employees' behaviors. A Self-Change, Adaption, and Modification (SCAM) Model is developed. The literature support for the model is written in similar…

A review of the general literature on diffusion, innovation, and social change is worthwhile as a basis for developing more effective methods for facilitating the adoption of computer-based technologies. Much of the research on diffusion has focused on (1) characteristics of the innovation which influence the diffusion process, (2) a description…

The policies and procedures outlined in this report have been adopted at Harford Community College (HCC) to: (1) monitor current and projected expenditures relative to accrued benefits, and (2) reduce or redirect expenditures and personnel in the event of declines in enrollment or revenues or a change in mission or program. After stating HCC's…

Managers' claims that reducing employment discrimination will lead to higher costs and decreased personnel efficiency in organizations are not supported by theory or empirical evidence. Economic theories, in fact, indicate that discrimination does not have a rational economic basis and that reducing discrimination should lead to increased, rather…

This report presents 38 strategies for cooperation between technical institutions and industry based on activities conducted in Saskatchewan. Section A discusses the need for technical institutes to adapt to demographic, technological, workplace, economic, lifestyle and organization changes and lists some of the trends that may have an impact on…

The impact of telecommunications on the development of interpersonal relationships has caused the traditional, centralized industrial management model--a highly rigid, top down, hierarchical communication system--to be replaced by a new decentralized communication model--a highly flexible, interdisciplinary network where people serve one another…

Results of changes to the planning process at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands are described. During the past years, government actions related to retrenchment prompted the Dutch universities to change their planning process in order to increase flexibility and to account for differences in quality. Two important procedures were…

In February 1982, a symposium was conducted at Santa Monica College (SMC) to inform the college community about the tumultuous changes which had occurred at the college from 1971 to 1982, and to gain broad-based participation in determining the direction of the college. The symposium also attempted to delineate broad philosophical principles that…

Management must maintain a continuity of communication, with particular emphasis on the importance of the individual and his/her relationships to the overall picture. (Author)

The role of interdisciplinarity, recognized as the nucleus formed by the fusion of separate specialties toward a particular objective, in southern institutions of higher education is explained in this bulletin. Reorganization of traditional departments, such as that at Davis and Elkins College, is examined. Integrated Studies divisions are…

In this overview of the Planning Educational Environments for Cleveland Children Project a comparison of selected change principles is made. These principles were taken from the change literature and were incorporated into the project design. The key features identified in the literature include: (1) the unit of change, (2) staff participation in…

This study was designed to determine differences in the goal orientation of school administrators and parents regarding school reorganization and differences in administrators' and parents' perceptions of the progress being made on reorganizational goals. A research instrument was developed and pilot-tested on a group of parents and then…

This paper presents and illustrates a technique that can be used to analyze the internal and external influences on community college enrollment trends and staffing patterns in a way that quantitatively expresses the amount of increase or decrease attributable to various competing factors. Introductory material relates the rationale behind the…

This paper discusses various concepts of tokenism and argues that tokenism is a technique used by the dominant group to resist minority group pressures for change. Reasons for social scientists' neglect of tokenism are given, and those conceptualizations which do appear in the literature are examined. Tokenism is described as a strategy to diffuse…