This document suggests to state postsecondary education agencies and other organizations concerned with postsecondary educational planning and management a possible state-level information structure that incorporates the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) Program Classification Structure (PCS). It provides some…

The new budget and accounting system for the California community colleges uses an activity-centered approach to expenditure reporting which describes real resource requirements (faculty, supporting staff, supplies, etc.), their costs (objects of expenditures), and relative use in each of the major activities which describe community college…

This document presents the University of Nevada System comprehensive plan for 1974-1979. Emphasis is placed on goals and objectives of state-supported higher education in Nevada; organization of the system and its major divisions; higher education issues and problems in Nevada in the 1970s; comparative analysis with other systems; a descriptive…

Structures for governing and coordinating higher education are changing. However, the primary responsibility for education rests with the state. The coordinating agency, which occupies the middle-ground between the institutions and the political decision-makers, should have 5 minimum abilities: (1) to engage in continuous planning, both long-range…

The next decade will require an entirely new kind of planning and coordination for statewide systems of higher education. In the past, quantitative growth and fiscal formulas have been stressed; in the future, planning will be forced to emphasize qualitative developments and flexible governance configurations. A Center study on state planning,…

This report was designed to assist the Connecticut Commission for Higher Education in its major study of the immediate- and long-range needs, resources, finances, and plans for higher education in Connecticut. This study is focused largely on ways of enabling higher education to facilitate the socioeconomic development of the various regions of…

If, nationally, there is increasing application to the state for support of private higher education, policymakers need to know the public policy justification of such support. The factors which should determine public policy with respect to support for independent higher education can be divided into four broad questions: Is the existence or…

The Academic Common Market is an interstate agreement among Southern states for sharing academic programs. Participating states include Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. Each state is able to make arrangements for its residents who qualify…

During the month of February 1970, the Louisiana Coordinating Council for Higher Education, with the complete cooperation of colleges and universities of the state and other agencies and persons, initiated an enrollment projection or estimation study of Louisiana colleges and universities. The study represents an attempt to standardize enrollment…

State coordination and control of higher education has increased and will continue to increase. "Points of promise" are: (1) effective statewide planning can extend equal opportunity for postsecondary education throughout an entire State; (2) unnecessary and expensive duplication of programs can be avoided; (3) gaps in availability of needed…

A planning committee of educators in Maine made three recommendations for extending educational opportunities below the baccalaureate level to more people: (1) the development of a comprehensive community college structure for the state; (2) the use of existing public and private facilities instead of constructing new buildings; and (3) the…

The information in this report pertains to the distribution of enrollments in Oregon's postsecondary institutions of education as of fall 1973. It is the purpose of this report to provide a reliable data base for use by those involved in comprehensive statewide educational planning. This is one of several annual reports published by the…

Developed by the State Library with the advice of the North Dakota Advisory Council on Libraries, this long range plan describes programs developed to meet the assessed needs of the State population, insofar as it is possible to satisfy these needs through the provision of public library service. The plan is to be reviewed annually and revised in…

This report is a synopsis of past studies of postsecondary education in Montana. Its purpose is to provide a brief sketch of each past study and to fulfill House Bill No. 578's (1973) mandate to the commission to assess the evidence and resulting recommendations made in prior studies relating to postsecondary education in Montana. The report…

This report contains 1971-72 data for 90 senior institutions and 47 junior institutions, for a total of 137 Illinois institutions. The data in the report are presented in two sections. The first section contains the senior institutions and the second section the junior institutions. Space limitations demanded that the sub-bachelor's degrees and…