The Ohio Program Review for Improvement, Development, and Expansion (PRIDE) in Vocational Education is a comprehensive program review system designed to define, secure, and provide useful information relative to selected vocational education objectives. This document was designed to assist the local vocational education personnel in planning and…

The manual, one of several resulting from a project to design planning procedures for local and State vocational education agencies, contains a variety of materials used in workshops, orientations, and briefings during the development of the Vocational Education Planning System. Two sections are particularly detailed: An Approach to the Vocational…

This report on higher education finance in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is divided into six sections. Section one deals with state support for higher education, and whether the state should give greater attention to the private sector than it has in the past. The question of whether the state could support substantial additional costs of…

The Education Commission of the States (ECS) established a task force to consider the possibility of developing model state legislation for guidance and assistance on how to deal with practices in postsecondary education that could be considered questionable, unethical, or fraudulent in the granting of degrees. As in the past, variety and…

This report includes a career education model and six recommendations made as "next steps" to the comprehensive recommendations made in previous reports by the Advisory Council for Technical-Vocational Education in Texas to the State Board for Vocational Education. Part II provides background material for the Council's recommendations…

Some significant trends in education are being overlooked today that foretell the coming direction of postsecondary education. The first trend includes the proportion of the State budget allocated for higher education in the future, which will be no greater in 1980 than it is now. The major trend that forces less funding is the establishment of a…

The higher education accountability requirements of today cry for responsive models that describe the attitudes, perceptions and characteristics of the populations they serve. Trend Surface Analysis is such a model. It is simple to apply, analytical in nature, and results in a graphic display in the form of a map. To the extent that the…

A pretest of the Vermont model of the Family Assistance Plan to provide statewide day care services for working parents is presented as to summary findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Facilitating factors towards the delivery of quality child care services were the day care licensing procedure, the focus on child development, talented…

Research activities, public meetings, and citizen input leading up to the development and writing of a state plan for environmental education in Michigan are reviewed in this essay. A general summary of the plan itself indicates values underlying planning activities, signals current problems and efforts, tells how the plan was developed, and…

The report is divided to cover: introductory material, management of Virginia's state-supported institutions of higher education, the coordination and governance of higher education in Virginia, the relationship between Virginia's private institutions and the state, legal education and manpower requirements in Virginia, and proposed legislation.…

The current revision of Montana's Statewide Outdoor Recreation Plan allows for utilizing the state's outdoor recreational resources to the best advantage of present and future generations. In developing the action program, consideration has been given to preservation, protection, and enhancement of the natural environment. The plan has also been…

During the years 1967-69, the Instruction Subcommittee of the Joint Committee on Education held a series of hearings to pinpoint the financial and organizational problems of educational television in the state of Washington. The problems revealed by this investigation prompted the Subcommittee to contract with Dr. Kenneth Christiansen, Director of…

This description and discussion of the budgetary process at the University of Michigan is divided into three major sections. The first section deals with the structure of the process and includes discussions of budget organization and format, an overview of the process, the general fund budget cycle, capital outlay appropriations, general fund…

In October 1971, the Academy for Educational Development entered into a contract with the Council on Higher Education of the State of Washington to prepare an analysis with recommendations on the financing of postsecondary education in Washington. The resulting pamphlet is divided into 5 chapters: (1) Higher Education for Whose Benefit? (2)…

Major elements in a general process model for state and local planning for minority and disadvantaged education are discussed. These elements are: (1) needs assessment and public discussion of issues, (2) state goals and objectives for disadvantaged education, (3) local community college goals, objectives, and commitments, (4) provision of…