The biennial WICHE Legislative Work Conference sought to determine how State legislators and officials conceived the major needs and issues of postsecondary education in the West and to reach some consensus as to the relative importance of those issues and needs vis-a-vis each other. The final results of this approach, using the Delphi technique,…

This report summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the California Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Emphasis is placed on the primary purposes and objectives of California public higher education, structure, governance, coordination and planning, access and retention, cooperation between institutions, new…

A preliminary long-range, broad proposal for environmental education in Wisconsin is presented in this document. Consideration is given for environmental education of the general public as well as the development of school programs. The major goal of this proposal is to establish an environmental ethic in Wisconsin. Present programs and resources…

PPBS is a system which integrates the functions of planning, programming, budgeting and evaluation. The PPB System is designed so that there is a logical sequence to these functions and their interrelationships are explicitly defined. The most outstanding feature of PPBS is the necessity of focusing very sharply on what should be accomplished by…

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 factors contributing to the need for an increasing ratio of health workers to total manpower in South Carolina are: demand for more and better health services, augmented by government support; technological advances in medical science; new organization patterns in medical care; rapid increase in population; development of new kinds of…

This report documents the findings of a questionnaire survey conducted in Delaware during the spring of 1973. Senior students in a sample of Delaware high schools were asked to provide certain information concerning their educational and occupational plans for the immediate future, and the extent to which these plans had been implemented at the…

The belief that each citizen should have some understanding of the natural world with its complex balances and should accept responsibility for man's influence upon the world serve as the primise for this report. Suggestions offered for comprehensive planning and a statewide approach to environmental education are made on the basis that Alabama…

The 1972 statewide master plan for private colleges and universities of the State of New York is presented. Chapters cover the climate of uncertainty, a response to the shifting enrollment, goals, policies, and modes of instruction; the characteristics of the private sector; the financial crises; a plan of action-objectives, long-term plan,…

The Office for Children in Massachusetts, created by a state law in 1972, is a unique approach to children's services. A strong point of the legislation creating the Office is a provision that mandates the establishment of local councils for children across the state. The Office for Children plans to establish 35 to 40 local councils. The local…

This report addresses a number of critical issues and recommends a variety of steps designed to enable the entire community of Illinois higher education, public and private, to respond. Study committees were appointed by the Board of Higher Education to investigate the following areas: admission and retention of students; institutional size and…

This booklet provides a brief description of the community junior college movement in the United States and its progress in Arkansas. Comprehensive community junior colleges traditionally offer two years of university-parallel work plus additional courses in occupational education, continuing education for adults, and community service programs.…

A second-year interim report on a three-year cooperative study involving a regional sampling of 41 Kentucky school districts is presented. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop methods of sampling and annually assessing the extent of learners' needs and to stimulate educational programming based on the reduction of learners' needs. Major…

In its proposal of May 1968 to the U.S. Office of Education for a Higher Education Comprehensive Facilities Planning Grant, the State of Maine Commission on Higher Education Facilities outlined several activities that it wished to undertake. On approval of the grant, the Commission engaged the Institute for Educational Development (IED) to conduct…

This document presents a delineation of student enrollments for the fall semester 1971 from the 43 accredited Kentucky colleges and universities. The enrollments are aggregated by institution, state, foreign country, and Kentucky resident students by county of origin. Some of the major findings of the study include: (1) The total enrollment of…