Author believes that since the present system of federal moneygiving is neither fair nor rational we should take a tip from the Selective Service System and award federal grants on the basis of a lottery. (Editor)

A resource-directive model is developed that specializes the organization's goals and decisionmaking activities into quasiautonomous units and that circumvents interunit dependencies (or externalities) in decentralization. The organization is considered to act by the sequential process of decisionmaking, operating, and then, on the basis of this…

Discusses applications and research of the management sciences in institutions of higher education. Includes (1) planning, programing, budgeting systems; (2) management information systems; (3) resource allocation models; and (4) mathematical models. In each, the major trends and literature are discussed and numerous references provided. Also…

An 11-step model designed to maximize the desirable traits and minimize the side effects of competitive funding. (RA)

Goal programing allows the solution of multiple, conflicting goals according to a managerial priority structure in an institution of higher learning. (RA)

A hospital administrator and a nursing school director point out the value of realistic allocation of costs to determine the economics of the diploma program. (Editor)

Describes the nature of contemporary society in terms of gross or general changes observed during the past twenty years in order to consider possible breakthroughs of school finance as products of social ferment. (Author/AN)

Two Czechoslovakian architects describe how they scheduled construction projects on a statewide scale by computerizing the priority for projects, the resource capacity, the time coordination, and the construction schedules. (Author)

Directed toward the novice in systems work, it is the purpose of this article to generalize at a very elementary level a methodology or approach which can be used in conducting a systems study. (34 references) (Author/NH)

A computer based planning and budgeting system aids decisionmakers in planning for allocation of limited resources. (RA)

The author thinks a voucher plan is misguided and doomed to failure because resources for education are too scarce. (RA)

Critique of Arthur E. Wise's article, "The Constitutional Challenge to Inequities in School Finance, published in the November issue of "Phi Delta Kappan". (HT)