Proposes a computer-based simulation technique--system dynamics--for use in policy development and decision making by community college administrators. Utilizes the technique to create a model showing the responses of three student income groups to increases in tuition. (DD)

Stresses that shared responsibility between administrators and faculty is necessary to enhance the educational process in the two-year college. Argues that collective bargaining is not a panacea, and that faculty must play a major role in assessing the quality of education. (JG)

Describes the workshop program of the Department of City and Regional Planning at Harvard University. The workshop consists of a student team that helps a government or nonprofit agency solve a policy-related problem. (KC)

A study to systematically analyze the policies of 100 major colleges and universities to determine whether they reflect a similar concern about faculty involvement in consultancies, and if so, how faculty are typically monitored in their consulting arrangements, is reported. Institutional policy summaries and standards for government-sponsored…

Describes and illustrates a new method, derived from social judgment theory, that enhances the quality of communication between the public and its representatives. (RL)

The Judicial Evaluation Method (JEM) is useful for aiding decision-making bodies to formulate policies. Broad public participation in complex issues is provided by JEM. (The conceptualization, policy formulation stages, and participant roles are identified; and the model is applied in two case studies). (MH)

Discusses the problems of language policy and planning in terms of past history. Two principles most basic to language policy orientation are: (1) principle of personality (the state accommodates itself to the individual's language preference), and (2) principle of territoriality (the individual accommodates to the language of the state). (JMF)

Includes 410 annotated citations arranged as follows: systems analysis; management in the public sector; policy, strategy and planning; organization; control and evaluation; costs and financing; information and decision-making systems. (JEG)

Government patent policy and the effect of antitrust legislation on innovation are discussed along with the efforts of the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department to formulate new government patent policy recommendations. Participation, disclosure, commercialization, and administrative cost are discussed as issues that concern the patent…

The remainder of this century will see monumentous decisions made in higher education regarding institutional size and numbers, financing, planning, and control. Many forces, outside and inside, will participate, but the role of the governing board will be crucial, suggests this author. (Editor/LBH)

Using a modified form of Judgment Analysis (JAN) techniques, the identification of the minimum number of different evaluation policies of teacher effectiveness was made for students at the University of Northern Colorado. (JC)

Discusses the arguments for and against expanded public participation in educational policy making and considers examples of several forms of public participation drawn from the U.S., France, Italy, England, Sweden, the German Federal Republic, and the People's Republic of China. Also explores some of the probable consequences of expanded public…

Reassesses the role of the school in the black community, concluding that the devaluation of the power of the school to politically, economically and culturally develop the community has hidden "the profound and pervasive influence of the school in shaping the lives of black Americans." (Author/JM)

The author discusses occupational obsolescence from 1960-75 by examining the concept itself, sources of occupational obsolescence, and continuing education as a central strategy for dealing with human obsolescence. (EA)

Underlying bases for federal interest in experimentation on human subjects, including abuses of investigative processes and efforts at regulation, are explored. Focus is on recent HEW rules on the protection of human subjects, which will have a significant impact on many research institutions. (LBH)