Sponsored by the Commission on Religion in Appalachia, Inc. (CORA), this 1971 atlas seeks to "facilitate communication and planning among CORA member communions and related agencies" within Appalachia by presenting data on administrative units, members, churches, boards, agencies, and committees of the following: American Baptist…

In recent years, as students and faculty have become more involved in decisionmaking, the number of meetings of committees and subcommittees on college campuses has grown by leaps and bounds. This has led many people to believe that the amount of time and energy devoted to committee meetings is far greater than is justified in terms of…

The major goal of the Right-to-Read program is to increase functional literacy so that, by 1980, 99% of the people in the United States who are under 16 years of age and 90% of those over 16 will be sufficiently competent as readers to function effectively as adults. This booklet suggests ways in which groups and organizations can initiate and…

This paper suggests that a first, important, step toward a broadening of the skills of the educational planner is a clear conceptualization of some implications that accompany differing styles of decision-making. It has been suggested that planning traditionally employs a rational decision model that leaves the planner poorly equipped to deal with…

This tentative agreement form and organizational structure was proposed to create a broad-based policy and decisionmaking body for operation of the Consortium to Produce Performance Objectives and Criterion-Referenced Measures in Occupational Education. It is part of a project designed to develop a multi-State consortium whose primary concern will…

The multiplicity and variety of organizations representing the national scope of higher education prompted the American Association of Colleges (AAC) and the National Council of Independent Colleges and Universities (NCICU) to study the Washington-based associations toward the end of reducing duplication and competition and achieving greater…

Cluster colleges organize campuses to capture all the advantages of the small college (local administration, identifiable students and faculty, a sense of community) while maintaining many of the advantages of the large institution (economy, financial security, efficiency, staff expertise). This article identifies advantages and problems, and…

The development and present activities of nine environmental groups are discussed. Groups included are the National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, American Forestry Association, National Parks and Conservation Association, Wilderness Society, Izaak Walton League, National Wildlife Federation, Friends of the Earth, and Defenders of Wildlife. (MR)

Presents the American Vocational Association's sixteen resolutions that were adopted at the annual vocational convention. (SH)

Presents a listing of technical college members of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Listing includes school name, address, president, and official representative. (SL)

Presents a listing of technical college affiliate members of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Listings include school name, address, president, and official representative. (SL)

Discusses the background and salient characteristics of Japan's educational reform movement. Until recently, Japan's formal education system was uniform, centrally controlled, and geared to developing character and cultural sensitivity. To counter uniformity, inflexibility, and an overly competitive examination system, schools are moving toward…

Interviews with the heads of planning units in four Mexican universities at different stages of organizational development in 1982 and 1983 provided data for research on the relationship between organizational structure and adaptive performance. The findings suggested that universities that reorganize have better opportunities to adapt to external…

Between 1938-1980, the local administrative units of American education were transformed from small, informal community arrangements into large professionally run bureaucracies. This paper explores this structural change by analyzing variation among states in the speed and extent of school district consolidation. Consolidation stemmed largely from…

This study examines culture-free and culture-bound hypotheses used to explain organizational structures. A survey of Hong Kong Chinese managerial employees in 20 multinational banks examined work satisfaction with relation to organizational structure, controlling for job structure and individual attributes. Findings generally supported the…