A project identified consumer education content that Louisiana consumer and home economics teachers perceive as being important. It also evaluated content of curriculum guides currently available from states and determined if any of these meet the needs of home economics consumer education programs in Louisiana. A questionnaire was developed to…

This case study is intended to provide education planners in other states with information on Colorado's experience with the Lifelong Learning Project. It is organized into several sections. To set the context, major circumstances affecting state-level planning and policy development are described. They are presented under two headings: (1)…

A summary is provided of the fiscal year 1984 activities undertaken as part of the Maryland State Community College Board's (MSCCB's) Management Information System and Program Evaluation efforts. First, the text of a resolution establishing a joint coordinating committee for occupational education programs is presented as approved by the MSBCC and…

Describes the conflicting pressures on available land resources. Notes the need for planning, especially on regional and statewide bases. (SLH)

State-level influences on community colleges are becoming more and more pronounced (greater state financial support, more state coordination in all higher education, general politicization of higher education) and its consequences are enumerated in this article (role changes, state instructional planning). (Author/PG)

This document is the proceedings of a statewide conference on the family sponsored by the Family Study Center and the Office of University Extension, Oklahoma State University. Participants and resource persons from eight states and 39 communities came together to consider new options for families as they face the adversities of a world with a…

This is the final report of the Financial Plan Project for Colleges and Universities. Its primary purpose is to present proposals on a financial plan for Alberta universities and public colleges. Following a brief review of financing postsecondary education in Canada, it focuses on the last ten years of Alberta practice; the treatment is…

Any state-level postsecondary education agency could perform its job more effectively through discriminate use of the available technology of informational and analytic planning approaches. The paper attempts to increase an awareness of how data, analytic techniques, and their product information should be used to assist state-level academic…

The State Planning System (SPS) is a flexible, policy-oriented management tool intended to help analyze possible impacts of various policy decisions. The SPS is able to address a wide range of issues because it depends on the user to provide the relationships and data to be used in the analysis. Such issues might include enrollment shifts among…

Describes New York State enrollment trends and prospects (1960-1990) noting implications for institutions and for public policy. (JT)

Considers the development and experience of the state faculty senate as a means for the local faculty senates to operate at the state level influencing state policy and providing a communication link that represents the interests of its member schools. (JT)

A system for the statewide coordination of higher education that emphasizes centralized accountability and decentralized management should ensure that the concept of institutional autonomy is preserved. (Editor/PG)

Most states have separate agencies to deal with vocational education, adult education, and community colleges. Because current procedures for interagency cooperation are inadequate and often nonproductive, there is a need for a national or extra-state catalyst to encourage cooperation in a positive way. Five strategies for cooperation are…

Describes the development of the state of Washington's computer-assisted bibliographic system, along with its present batch-mode cataloging support subsystem and efforts toward on-line integrated acquisitions and cataloging support. (LS)

Linear programing is an approach that Oklahoma is currently using to channel vocational and technical education programs into manpower areas that need training. (BP)