An effective environmental scan will improve the quality of community college planning and decision making by alerting institutional leaders to the challenges and opportunities in the environment. Scanning can be done in three ways: (1) establishing a scanning committee to gather and synthesize information to guide planning; (2) sponsoring a…

Though program evaluation has been an important focus of higher education for the last 20 years, traditional evaluation models have been ineffective for on-going programs, particularly those where the outcomes are multifaceted or undefined. Over the last five years, several alternative viewpoints on program evaluation have been suggested which…

This report summarizes information on juvenile detention facilities using staff supervision rather than architectural barriers, such as barred windows and locked doors. Results of a survey of staff secure facilities are detailed in the appendix and eight tables of data are provided. Topics covered in the appendix, which comprises most the…

The College of Education at Northern Arizona University was organized along traditional lines with a dean, department chairs for curriculum and instruction, educational administration, etc. In the past decade the College had begun to isolate itself from other colleges and departments within the University. Also, programs of teacher preparation had…

Popular theories of drug addiction are detailed and found wanting. Naturalistic studies of addicts in their own environments are reviewed in order to demonstrate that addicts do not fit these theories which are supposed to explain them. A plea is made to pay more attention to these ethnographic studies, if more effective and humane laws and social…

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Rehabilitation for the Deaf (Washington, D.c., Hot Springs, Arkansas, and New York, New York (May 1968).

This paper examines implicit curricula which consist of the messages imparted by the classroom and school environment. Among the outcomes that have been attributed to implicit curricula are individual and societal effects that foster conformity to national ideals and social conventions while maintaining socioeconomic and cultural inequalities.…

Through description and discussion of the county prison's setting and potential for adult education, this booklet presents guidelines for successful correctional services. (It was designed as a supplement to a community-centered county correctional workshop.) An introductory section describes the prison setting including regulation of Pennsylvania…

The complexities involved in combining generalized and specialized studies are discussed in a descriptive analysis of the Harvey Mudd College (HMC), which has a campus environment typical of US institutions offering undergraduate engineering programs. Of 7 environmental characteristics at HMC student personalities and the socio-psychological…

A commonly held assumption is that students should enter college with values and attitudes shared by their parents and, following 4 years of preparation, leave as adults with identical values and attitudes. It is becoming evident that today's students have chosen to depart from these expectations, since growing numbers of them are entering college…

Traditionally, universities have independently sought and preserved knowledge and prepared students for professional careers, although society has influenced and supported their objectives. Today's universities, challenged by the increasingly complex needs of society, are responding with educational innovations that are usually profitable to both.…

This document discusses educational system-environment relationships primarily in the State of California, with full regard for national and other influences. Primary attention is given to the functional and organizational aspects of the educational system and its environment. Before the relationships are specified, a system rationale for…

This paper focuses broadly on the needs and rights of Canadian children. It mentions problems ranging from juvenile suicide to delinquency to the grim cruelty of many institutional environments designed for children. It discusses the linkages between the question of juvenile containment and other social welfare arrangements, such as public…

Curriculum initiation in public vocational programs in Wisconsin is an unstructured procedure, is conducted from an inadequate data base and with little or no involvement of local advisory committees. Improved procedures are recommended for the purpose of facilitating curricular relevance to rapidly changing occupational needs. Data collection was…