This paper examines the role of systems thinking in higher education, explaining that university examples provide a sense of what systems thinking entails when applied within large, complex organizations. It shares insights provided by the system dynamics approach for approaches to organizational leadership in education. A system dynamics approach…

This paper discusses the debate on paradigms in educational administration and how this debate cannot be separated from the debate on the nature of the school. It asks questions about the extent to which recent challenges to traditional paradigms succeeded in changing the debate on the school as an organization. It supports arguments that the most…

The author advocates assessment of local vocational agriculture programs to determine their viability and growth by examining the systematization, development, and assimilation aspects of the program. (EA)

The proposed evaluation model provides for the assignment of relative weights to each criterion, and establishes a weighting system for calculating a quantitative-qualitative raw score for each service activity of a faculty member being reviewed. (Author)

A fast-tracked technical school in Chicago is another tribute to this method of construction. Related articles are EA 504 766 (American School and University; v46 n7 Mar 74) and EA 504 854 (American School and University; v46 n8 Apr '74). Illustrated. (Author/MLF)

Current research in management science is yielding new planning methodology more consonant with the presently shifting world view than past fragmented efforts have been. (Author)

This paper examines characteristics of three main education sub-systems: the policy formation system, the management or control system, and the implementation system. It also points out some implications of the analysis which seem to indicate similar and increasingly important developments in other public service bureaucracies. (Author)

Author proposes a system of manufacturing management training where the return on investment can be measured in dollars and cents. (GB)

Presents a model for a proposed allied health system which incorporates three dimensions: (1) education and training, (2) a social health dyad, and (3) service delivery. (MU)

Asserts that programs to prepare educational administrators need upgrading if they are to maintain credibility and survive. A systemic model is proposed as a guide to the revision of such programs, and its application at the University of Kansas is discussed. (WM)

A systems approach model to counselor education is justified and elaborated by Steven Zifferblatt. Responses to his remarks are made by T. Antoinette Ryan, Donald Blocker and Patricia Wolleat, Lawrence Brammer, Ray Hosford and Norman Stewart. A rejoinder by the original author also follows. (CJ)

Curriculum management stresses the identification of purpose and content involving essentially what'' questions; instructional development deals with strategies and techniques of teaching that attend basically to questions of how.'' This article deals with a description of an appropriate instructional development system. (Authors/CB)

Makes informal analyses of the method by which decisions in higher education are now made and of how that method compares to the systematic planning procedures so often proposed. Suggests how the systems approach can be applied in higher education and indicates what processes would be involved. Concludes with a discussion of a few of the problems…