Coordination of career education programs with total State and national efforts must be made immediately to bring career-oriented programs and offerings into the mainstream of State and local educational agencies through Statewide planning. The issues are widespread and basic--involving people, dollars, priorities and attitudes. (Author)

The authors of Statewide Reallocation through Program Priorities'' respond to the preceding commentary. (PG)

With statewide boards of control functioning in 46 states, public college faculty will be moving into new areas of coordination under the watchwords of accountability and assessment. (HS)

Regional Service Centers in Texas seek to retrain teachers for new subjects, help administrators, process test scores, educate paraprofessionals, appraise students, establish vocational education and help with curriculum and instruction. (Author/AF)

Two Czechoslovakian architects describe how they scheduled construction projects on a statewide scale by computerizing the priority for projects, the resource capacity, the time coordination, and the construction schedules. (Author)

Four general planning approaches are identified: disjointed, adaptive, strategic, and comprehensive. Interaction between level of planning complexity and source of motivation is explored, and implications for decision makers are discussed. (Author/MLW)

A synopsis of the report of the Advisory Council on New Jersey Studies. (SJL)

The pros and cons of Proposition 13's impact on health education programs in California are discussed. (LH)

Planning techniques provide a means of systematically evaluating and documenting the impact of alternative land use strategies, thereby enabling state recreational planners to develop policies and programs offensively, rather than as defensive reactions to deteriorating situations. (MB)

In Georgia, 15 nursing programs collaborated on a statewide articulation model to facilitate mobility of registered nurses into bachelor's degree nursing programs. The model standardizes entry into all bachelor's programs without threatening individual program autonomy. (SK)

State coordinating boards address a variety of issues that relate to students and to student affairs operations. In order to participate in shaping and addressing these issues, student affairs staff need to understand how these boards operate and how to work most effectively with them. (Contains 33 references.) (Author)

Five articles in this theme issue look at the rationale supporting the "about agriculture" portion of the agricultural education spectrum. They explore the philosophical base for a nonvocational program in agricultural education and offer definitions of agricultural literacy and subject matter content. (JOW)

Critics of the Texas higher education system complain South Texas public colleges have not shared state funds equitably and suggest mergers would allow the small institutions to gain political power and funding for expansion. However, the mergers are seen as only a beginning to the regional upgrading of higher education. (MSE)

Describes the use of geographic information systems (GIS) to define, map, and measure the information infrastructure of South Carolina, and proposes a procedure for identifying the quality of information infrastructures. Highlights include socioeconomic factors, the library infrastructure, bookstores and mass media, and examples of maps.…